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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:53:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cpan-testers AT perl DOT org
Subject: Re: Perl 5.6.1 showing as 5.006_01 on testers.cpan.org (was: How
 can I copy and paste into Cygwin console windows?)
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Michael Hoffman schrieb am 2001-09-10, 16:27:
> 
> >On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >> [SNIP]
> >
> >My apologies for starting this thread off-list. This question was only
> >incidental to a message about non-Cygwin stuff. Actually, this seems
> >to not be really Cygwin-related either, so I'll redirect to
> >cpan-testers AT perl DOT org.
> 
> Well, I'm only testing modules on cygwin with cygwin perl, so why not 
> also report it to cygwin folks?

*shrug*

> >When looking for cygwin in the by-config page all I could find is tests
> >for perl 5.006_01 (macid=130). I now realize that this is a
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^ that is AIX, cygwin is 131.

Today at least, <http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=mac&mac=130> gives:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1)
configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=cygwin, osvers=1.3.2(0.3932), archname=cygwin-multi
    uname='cygwin_nt-4.0 loreley 1.3.2(0.3932) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686
    unknown '

It sounds like this might be fluid.

> >consequence of the version numbering system change in 5.005 to 5.6.0.
> >
> >Would it be possible to at least put a note of this on the CPAN
> >testers web page? It seems non-obvious to me to use 5.006_01 when I
> >want 5.6.1.
> 
> That is the official versioning schema. I think you should ask the 
> webmaster/maintainer of this website, the link is always at the footer.

OK.

> The highest entry is always the newest.

I like how cygwin is above the other osnames by virtue of "c" being
close to the beginning of the alphabet, too. :-)
--
Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
The University of Texas at Austin






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