[ITP] perl-5.8.8

[Reini Urban]

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) schrieb:
> But one thing, PLEASE give some heads-up before stabilizing 5.9/5.10?
> That upgrade will require rebuilding all perl modules, and I've got over
> 100 of them.

Sure, that will be a major move and will need some time.
2 months at least in my opinion. This is just the first beta.

5.10 will then be binary compatible to 5.9 but again in
/usr/bin, /usr/lib/perl/5.10


Currently I'm testing how to provide a perl5.9 test release which can be 
used side-by-side to the stable perl-5.8.x. (as also done in my 
postgresql7.4)
Put the exe's into /opt/perl5.9/bin or /usr/lib/perl5/5.9/bin or 
specialized in /usr/bin/?

The only major conflicts are perlld and ld2, which require a patch if 
kept in /usr/bin/
Currently I'm using the /usr/bin/*5.9.4[.exe] layout.
However /usr/bin/ld25.9.4 is really ugly.
And the only really diff is for building cygperl5_{8,9}.dll, which is 
never used when already put into the target path.
So I'm thinking of leaving only the 5.8 version of perlld and ld2 there.
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