From Rafael, yesterday on p5p: 
      When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this
    sublunary word--the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of
    a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see
    what is the cause and first spring of them--The search was not
    long in this instance.
      -- Sterne, Tristram Shandy, IV, xxvii


This is perl 5.6.2.
It will be available soon from your favourite CPAN mirror as

    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.6.2.tar.gz

Its MD5 checksum is 6aa648d086ecda5400de3472dbe1ebfe.

Thanks to everyone who helped me to build, test and fix this new
maintainance release (and to everyone who provided the fixes for
5.8 that I backported into perl 5.6).  The use.perl announcement
will follow tomorrow.

Enjoy,
-- rgs

Abigail

Edit by tye, remove significant trailing spaces

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Re: Perl 5.6.2
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2003 at 02:50 UTC

    Does anyone have a pointer to the justification/logic behind 5.6.2?

    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
    "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
    "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
    Hooray!
    Wanted!

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      G:\perls>perldoc perldelta
NAME
    perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.x

DESCRIPTION
    This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and 
+the
    5.6.2 release.

Summary of changes between 5.6.1 and 5.6.2
    The 5.6.2 release is aimed at providing only a minimal update to p
+erl
    5.6.1, which wasn't being compatible with some of the newest compi
+lers
    (most notably gcc 3.x), libraries and operating systems that have
    appeared since 5.6.1 was released.

    Note also that perl no longer installs itself as /usr/bin/perl by
    default if it exists. (see the INSTALL file.)

    The following modules have been upgraded :

    Data::Dumper 2.121
    DB_File 1.806
    ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.17
    File::Spec 0.86
    File::Temp 0.14
    Safe 2.10
    Test 1.24
    Test::Harness 2.30
    The following modules were added :

    Test::Builder 0.17
    Test::More 0.47
    Test::Simple 0.47
    if 0.03

      [download]

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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        FWIW, it's also the first 5.6.X that I could compile right out of the box on Mac OS X.

        Liz

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