Re: Re: Re: ActivePerl Build 807

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.

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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]

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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.

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