It's irresponsible to announce 5.8 before the powers-that-be are ready to announce it. It wasn't yet announced on http://use.perl.org or CLPA because it hadn't propogated to all the mirrors yet.
Next time, please read the prefix in front of the announcement you stole by reading P5P, and comply
with the pumpking's wishes. You've done the equivalent of going to a private press meeting where the director says "now, the official time to move on this is $X", and you unload at "$X-2" to scoop everyone. That's the time you lose your press pass.
Here's the quote from the pumpking himself:
The official announcement (for use.perl.org, for dev.perl.org/perl5,
comp.lang.perl.announce, etc.) will go out soon as enough mirrors
have picked up the tar.gz. I'll ask the mirror sites to expedite
their mirrors. (Yes, please, don't use.perl this yet.)
{sigh}
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Rats, nothing from activestate yet. Well maybe a day or two from now....
Update:
Well I guess this post classifies as a great big DOH!
Thanks Merlyn for reminding me about that! -Sigh-
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I tried doing that install Bundle::CPAN bit but it just told me that everything was up-to-date (except for my Net::Telnet has problems, but I don't really use that) - any idea what's up? | [reply] |
Make sure the perl you invoke (ala % perl -MCPAN -e shell) is the perl you want your modules associated with. Perhaps you'd have better luck with something like % /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 -MCPAN -e shell
-Blake
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