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My requests (Score:3, Funny)
Increase the number of modules in the standard library, and get threading working.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:My requests (Score:3, Informative)
More seriously the goal for 5.6.2 is very modest : to modernize its compilation system (gcc 3 compatibility, recognize recent OSes such as AIX 5 or OpenUNIX 8, recognize recent libs such as recent Berkeley DB) and upgrade a few core modules that have been proven to work with perl 5.6.1. And release 5.6.2 fast, in order to prove to the world that the perl community is able to maintain older versions.
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Re:My requests (Score:2)
Threads ? Assimilation of CPAN ? That's already been done : it's called 5.8.0 !
Yes. That was the joke, you see. ;)
(Bad J. David! Don't troll the new pumpking!)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:My requests (Score:2)
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Re:My requests (Score:2)
You will probably need even more tools than that to survive the responsibility you just picked up. :P
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers