Re: ActivePerl Build 807

One should also mention that one of the most significant differences between 807 and previous builds is, as the changelog states, 807 is the first ActivePerl build to be based on Perl 5.8.1. Pervious builds were based on Perl 5.8.0. Thus, all perldelta changes for 5.8.1 can also be implicitly interpolated into the Active State changelog for build 807.

Dave

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Re: Re: ActivePerl Build 807 by grantm (Parson) on Nov 25, 2003 at 03:50 UTC
807 is the first ActivePerl build to be based on Perl 5.8.1 Good catch. I was struck by the irony that Build 807 is based on 5.8.1 but was apparently released the day after 5.8.2. And yet somehow I still omitted to mention it.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: ActivePerl Build 807 by bart (Canon) on Nov 25, 2003 at 20:12 UTC
ActivePerl 807 is based on perl5.8.1?!? How extremely silly, especially since binary incompatibility between perl5.8.0 and perl5.8.1 is the main reason why 5.8.2 is already out. For Windows, where hardly anybody compiles his own XS modules, that's a very important point. Nobody should be using perl 5.8.1. Ever.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: ActivePerl Build 807 by grantm (Parson) on Nov 25, 2003 at 20:30 UTC
... binary incompatibility between perl5.8.0 and perl5.8.1 ... Except that as detailed in the release notes (linked above) the ActivePerl release was compiled without the hash randomisation feature enabled - precisely because it would have broken binary compatibility. I'm sure they'll have a 5.8.2 build out real soon but in the meantime at least the fixes in 5.8.1 are available to the Windows community.	[reply]