Message-ID: <19980828122628.A24746@cdata.tvnet.hu>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:26:28 +0200
From: Laszlo Molnar <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Perl 5.005 binary distribution available for test
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Sender: Molnar Laszlo <ml AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
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Hi All!

The first binary trial version of Perl 5.005 is uploaded to the usual
simtelnet mirrors into the v2gnu/alphas directory. This version was
tested under plain dos, there was no real tests under win9x (please
test it).

The djgpp port is part of the official perl distribution from version
5.005, and it should be built out-of-the-box. Well, under plain dos :-)
I didn't include the sources this time, but you can download them from
any CPAN mirror like:

 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/perl5.005.tar.gz

What's new:

 - perl 5.005 now includes a perl compiler so perl scripts can be compiled
   to C or bytecode.
 - multithread support (experimental, recompilation needed).
 - bug fixes
 - and more ... (read lib/perl5/pod/perldelta.pod)

To install the binary distribution:

 - unzip the sources from your djgpp top level directory
 - execute:

 bin\perl -pi1 -e 's!c:/djgpp!x:/your_djgpp_toplevel_dir!ig' lib/perl5/Config.pm

If you find a djgpp specific problem please send a bug report to me.
If it's a win9x only problem, then patches are welcome :-)

bye, Laszlo

ps: perl 5.005_02 will be uploaded soon