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From: "Eric Fifer" <egf7 AT columbia DOT edu>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Availability for test: perl-5.6.1-1
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:10:54 -0000
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I have just uploaded perl-5.6.1-1 to sourceware -- it should be on the
mirrors
soon.  perl is marked as a 'test' release, so you may have to specifically
select it in setup to install (see INSTALLATION below).

This TEST release is based on perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1:


http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-12/msg00922.html

Despite being a TRIAL and not recommended for production systems,
it has many bug fixes since 5.6.0 and passes 100% of the test
suite.  The final perl-5.6.1 release is not expected until late
January, so this may be a prolonged test phase.

Be sure to read the /usr/doc/Cygwin/perl-5.6.1.README for details about
this release.  In particular, it already includes the Bundle::CPAN
modules so you can quickly start downloading from CPAN.

INSTALLATION:

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://www.cygwin.com web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Run setup and answer all of the questions.

**********************************************************************
*** PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, choose a mirror site for your download ***
**********************************************************************

even if it might take a while until this new archive is propagated
to the mirrors.  The 'sources.redhat.com' site is badly overloaded.
The mirrors below will probably have the latest version of this
package fairly soon:

  ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/cygwin/ (US)
  ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/
    (Germany)
  ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/pc/cygwin/ (Greece)

To install this TEST version of perl you will have to tell setup.exe to
specifically install it by clicking on the Exp (experimental) button
and possibly the arrows to the left of the perl package line.

Happy Holidays,

Eric Fifer



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