Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Some complaints about Perl 5.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:47:31 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear all, My main complaint is that it is shoved a little bit to literally into one's throat. Yes, I know I can choose on the installer, but everytime I want to update some things, I have to check that Perl is not replaced. Now the installer has shoved Perl 5.8.0 on my system (luckily a test system), which first of all means that all modules I installed on 5.6.0 I have to redo for 5.8.0. -> Never break an existing system inadvertently ! Since there are other things which seem to be optional, Perl 5.8.0 also could have been optional. Apart from this nasty surprise, which has been cleaned up mostly, there is also something wrong with Perl 5.8.0. It sends out too much \n characters. Code which ran fine for already two years now breaks. Looking into the serverside of the thing, I see that all my values get extra \n characters. These are values which are written through pipes. The only thing that changed was the installation of Perl 5.8.0 on the client side of my system, on the server side I still use Perl 5.6.0. I implemented a quick patch to strip of excess white space at the end of my values, but there should be a good solution. What I also noticed, and maybe this is related, is that in the Perl debugger I had to press the Enter key twice after every command to get it going. The current state of my system contains all the most recent installs, so I think that pertaining to the Perl debugger, people should have the same problem. CYGWIN = ntsec tty Since everything is currently working and the problems are not blocking for the moment, nobody need to hurry. I do not have time until Monday to post a minimum of code which duplicates the errors. Everybody have a nice weekend, but a bad nights sleep over the Perl debugger problem. Jurgen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/