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Hello list, |
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I already talked about this topic yesterday in #-dev. |
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perl-5.10 is out since end of 2007 [1] and we still don't have it in our main |
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portage-tree but rather have it kinda rotting in the perl-experimental |
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overlay. |
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I know that the perl team is badly understaffed with only one active dev who |
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is not even on the member list (is that right, tove?) but there has to be |
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done something. We cannot stick with perl-5.8 forever. |
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So my suggestion is to ask for help here. Anybody willing to help please grab |
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the perl-experimental overlay, install {lib,}perl-5.10 and start to use it on |
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a regular basis. If you don't mind, try to install as much perl-packages as |
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possible and report back any failures to our bugzilla. |
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I already started on that and "infected" two of my systems with perl-5.10. My |
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VM (which I originally only set up for testing of kde-4) is currently running |
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a 'USE="perl" emerge -e @world' and till now 320 out of 550 packages |
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installed without any problems on that machine. |
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Next step will be to go though perl-core and dev-perl categories and install |
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every package being in there. |
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My intention is to get a picture about how many packages are broken with |
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perl-5.10. The fixing of those packages is something I unfortunately cannot |
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do (I'm a complete perl-noob) but maybe this is a good start getting |
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perl-5.10 finally into portage. |
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By the way, as soon as I find the first packages being broken with perl-5.10 I |
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will open a tracker bug in bugzilla. So watch out for it if you stumble about |
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failing packages with perl-5.10 yourself. |
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Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) |
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Gentoo Staffer and bug-wrangler |
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[1] according to the perl website version 5.10 is more than one year and seven |
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months old: http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html |