http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.2-RC1.tar.bz2

Please contribute to the development of Perl. Download it, build it, and test whether your favourite applications still work. Nickolas is in particular interested in: 

  0: binary compatibility between 5.8.2 and modules compiled under 5.8.0

  1: binary compatibility between 5.8.2 and modules compiled under 5.8.1

  2: how scripts that hash large amounts of data behave
                                                       
  3: reassurance that it still build on Windows, VMS, OS/2, ...

  4: whether OS X and Solaris build all XS modules correctly now

  5: is modperl still happy

  6: does PAR work smoothly
Plus all the important things he forgot to mention.

Abigail

In reply to Release Candidate 1 for 5.8.2 by Abigail-II

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