Re^2: perl-5.8.8 is out

Anybody have any leads? Or does nick makes these announcements in private communications?

From the perl5-porters mailing list (which is the Real Thing, the use.perl announcement comes after the fact):

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From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
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Subject: 5.8.8
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    It's not that easy bein' green                  
    Having to spend each day the color of the leaves  
    When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
    Or something much more colorful like that               
                                                           
    It's not easy bein' green                               
    It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
    And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're        
    Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water     
    Or stars in the sky                                       
                                                       
    But green's the color of Spring                              
    And green can be cool and friendly-like               
    And green can be big like an ocean               
    Or important like a mountain    
    Or tall like a tree

    When green is all there is to be
    It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
    Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
    And I think it's what I want to be

        Bein' Green, by Joe Raposo


  http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

(or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 28% larger download.)

coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as

  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

shasums are

818a140d9c04ea8dab3a05104b34ced7f7d9d0a91bfed91baf89a84d0dfb1bc9  perl
+-5.8.8.tar.bz2
e15d499321e003d12ed183601e37ee7ba5f64b278d1de30149ce01bd4a3f234d  perl
+-5.8.8.tar.gz

md5sums are

a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382  perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7  perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

The use.perl announcement will be in a day or so, once it's had time t
+o
propagate round CPAN.

Nicholas Clark
[download]

It has actually been out for a while, it was just a question of giving the mirrors time to catch up.

Nicholas++

• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl

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Re^3: perl-5.8.8 is out by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 02, 2006 at 19:14 UTC
I found that. That's not what brian_d_foy quoted. Thanks anyway. We're building the house of the future together.	[reply]
Re^4: perl-5.8.8 is out by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Feb 03, 2006 at 15:58 UTC
You should really correct your statement to "That's not what Nick wrote and brian d foy approved for use.perl." I didn't quote anything, I didn't write the content, and I didn't tell Nick what to write. If you have a question for Nick, ask him directly. :) -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com> Subscribe to The Perl Review	[reply]
Re^5: perl-5.8.8 is out by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 03, 2006 at 18:25 UTC
I didn't quote anything, What is one to think when a use.perl posting posted by brian_d_foy says nicholas writes "Perl 5.8.8 Release Candidate 1 has been uploaded to CPAN..." One can't be blamed for thinking that brian_d_foy is quoting nicholas clark, because that's what it says in black and white. I have since learned that this was posted under a kind of editorial, third-party article submission mechanism. So (not that I'm asking or expecting anything to change over at use.perl) I'll just suggest that I might not be the only use.perl reader who could be confused by the way "stories" are posted and attributed. We're building the house of the future together.	[reply]