Rafaël Garcia-Suarez announced on p5p the release of perl-5.10 RC1 this weekend. There is talk of having a one month Release Candidate cycle. If no show-stopper bugs are found, it would mean that one possible release date would be the 18th of December, 2007.

Why is that date special?

It's the 20th anniversary of Perl.

So download a copy, install it in your home directory and try testing your code on it. I believe adamk is putting the finishing touches on a new Strawberry Perl (and Chocolate Perl -- with extra goodies) release for Windows users.

update: it's out. Rafaël released it live on stage during the French Perl Workshop. Look at it at here or download it from a mirror near you.

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Re: Perl 5.10 Release Candidate 1 is coming
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Nov 16, 2007 at 20:46 UTC
    Are there any plans for people to smoke CPAN under the new RC?
    My criteria for good software:
    1. Does it work?
    2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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      Andeas König is single-handedly smoking as much of CPAN as he has CPUs to spare. Many troublesome modules have been identified over the past year, and the Phalanx 100 list helps too, and there is a group of hard-core CPAN smokers who test all new uploads with the latest blead.

      But people with more exotic hardware platforms (thanks, parv) than just Linux or FreeBSD are more than welcome to set up their own smokes. The more, the better.

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        I'm just thinking - wouldn't it be worthwhile for TPF to go ahead and get a bunch of EC2 instances of various systems and have them smoking stuff? I'm pretty sure Amazon would be willing to discuss donating those resources as TPF is a non-profit under the IRS rules.

        Update: Added link to EC2 (Thanks, jdporter!)

        My criteria for good software:
        1. Does it work?
        2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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        Emphasis is mine ...

        But people with more exotic hardware than just Linux or FreeBSD are more than welcome to set up their own smokes.

        Really? Then that is news to me (for I know of Linux and FreeBSD as being software).

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Re: Perl 5.10 Release Candidate 1 is coming
by blazar (Canon) on Nov 17, 2007 at 18:30 UTC
    If no show-stopper bugs are found, it would mean that one possible release date would be the 18th of December, 2007.

    I personally believe it would also be a fantastic Xmas gift!

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