From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 14: 1:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F03715516 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA04406; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00:02 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA07499; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199903102200.AAA07499@greenpeace.grondar.za> To: Jon Bailey Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'jhi@iki.fi'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD folks interested in receiving Perl release announceme nts? In-Reply-To: Your message of " Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:17:29 MST." <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301FEF3F2@HOUSTON> References: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301FEF3F2@HOUSTON> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:59:59 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon Bailey wrote: > 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. Great! > > 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. Great!! > > 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? Great!!! Please count markm@freebsd.org in. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message