So it sounds like Rafael will be spending a lot of time finding quotes; keep an eye on Recent Perl Release Announcements to see what he chooses.I plan to release perl 5.9.2, the next development version, as soon as the smokes settle down, just to be sure it compiles without problems on the major OSes -- Unixes, Windows and VMS, feedback on other platforms welcome.
The plan is to release often (and early) development versions, each time a new major change or feature is integrated into blead, until we reach 5.10.0. pack() changes and trie optimisation seem to be a good reason for a new release.
The goal is to have a development version of perl a bit more widely tested than by the core perl5-porters only; notably, tests against the major CPAN modules (e.g. the Phalanx 100) will be appreciated.
I have written a rough draft of the next perldelta (pod/perl592delta.pod in the bleadperl tree, or at the URL http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?file=pod%2Fperl592delta.pod) I'm sure it's very incomplete and innaccurate, and you will probably want to submit patches against it :)
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