perl-5.18.4

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Fri Jan 23 19:03:00 GMT 2015


On 01/23/2015 06:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 23 05:50, Reini Urban wrote:
>> 2015-01-19 4:02 GMT-06:00 Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Jan 19 10:36, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>> On 1/19/2015 9:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> Still, why?  Is it real backward incompat, or just due to DLL
>>>>> versioning?  Does DLL versioning really make sense here?  Usually, if
>>>>> the new DLL is only providing new stuff but not breaking backward
>>>>> compat, we're not bumping the DLL version.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Corinna
>>>>
>>>> looking at the Changelog, they are breaking API
>>
>>>> http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5180delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
>>>> http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5200delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
>>>
>>> Oh well.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> BTW: 5.22 will be about 1.8 times faster on perl-heavy tasks.   
> 
> So you are still here, somehow?  You didn't bother to reply for the last
> three months, so I'm wondering, what are your plans as Cygwin maintainer?
> You maintain quite a couple of packages, some of them not yet available
> as 64 bit packages:
> 
>   catdoc
>   clisp
>   ctris
>   fcgi
>   ffcall
>   libsigsegv
>   libtextcat
>   mathomatic
>   parrot
>   perl-io-tty
>   perl-libwin32
>   perl-win32-gui
>   rakudo
>   scsh
>   tesseract-ocr
> 
> Are you still with us?

Not really, sorry. Just lurking, but not much time to work in cygwin
anymore.

All my packages are up for grabs.

clisp was broken upstream with the change to dynamic modules,
the rest should be trivial to maintain.


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