From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 13:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08000154E5; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonb@matchlogic.com) Received: by HOUSTON with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:17:30 -0700 Message-ID: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301FEF3F2@HOUSTON> From: Jon Bailey To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'jhi@iki.fi'" Cc: "'markm@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: FreeBSD folks interested in receiving Perl release announceme nts? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:17:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.freebsd.org/ports/perl5.html indicates that perl-5.00502 is maintained by markm@freebsd.org , so this message is being Cc: 'ed to him. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarkko Hietaniemi [mailto:jhi@iki.fi] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 4:46 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD folks interested in receiving Perl release > announcements? > > > > Hi, > > A mailing list is being planned that would carry Perl release > announcements -- and not only maintenance releases but also > development releases. Actually the whole point revolves around the > latter: the purpose of the list would be to let people of various > operating system platforms to get the prerelease announcements early > enough. > > We (the Perl developers) want no out-of-sync situations to develop; > Perl should live long and prosper everywhere: the major point being > that by the time maintenance releases happen, all platforms supported > by Perl should be still be supported. In Unix platforms such a drift > is of course less likely, but still possible. > > There's perl5-porters@perl.org, yes, but it's a high-volume list. The > traffic of this new list would be really low: only sender would be a > small gnome living at the depths of CPAN (when it detects a new Perl > release, it sends out an announcement) and by far the most frequent > would be the developer release announcements, about twice a month. > > A cycle of "sh Configure -ders && make all test && make ok" is the > minimal incantantion: if everything is just fine, this will send an > "OK" email to perlbug@perl.org. If the "test" target fails, then a > "make nok" would be appreciated: that will ask for more detail, such > as the output of "cd ./t && ./perl harness". > > So, is there interest? If there is, what would be the appropriate > email address to send these announcements? > > -- > $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ > # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. > # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message