Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:45:49 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD folks interested in receiving Perl release announcements? Message-ID: <199903101145.NAA21744@alpha.hut.fi>
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Hi, A mailing list is being planned that would carry Perl release announcements -- and not only maintenance releases but also development releases. Actually the whole point revolves around the latter: the purpose of the list would be to let people of various operating system platforms to get the prerelease announcements early enough. We (the Perl developers) want no out-of-sync situations to develop; Perl should live long and prosper everywhere: the major point being that by the time maintenance releases happen, all platforms supported by Perl should be still be supported. In Unix platforms such a drift is of course less likely, but still possible. There's perl5-porters@perl.org, yes, but it's a high-volume list. The traffic of this new list would be really low: only sender would be a small gnome living at the depths of CPAN (when it detects a new Perl release, it sends out an announcement) and by far the most frequent would be the developer release announcements, about twice a month. A cycle of "sh Configure -ders && make all test && make ok" is the minimal incantantion: if everything is just fine, this will send an "OK" email to perlbug@perl.org. If the "test" target fails, then a "make nok" would be appreciated: that will ask for more detail, such as the output of "cd ./t && ./perl harness". So, is there interest? If there is, what would be the appropriate email address to send these announcements? -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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