From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 11:30:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08794 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08746; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA17106; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:29:25 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809131829.UAA17106@gratis.grondar.za> To: John Fieber cc: Gary Palmer , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl version in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:10:50 EST." References: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:29:24 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Fieber wrote: > > Not on my CPAN mirror... > > Okay, call me confused. :-P Er, me too... > I checked a couple including ftp.perl.org and language.perl.com, > ftp.funet.fi (reportedly the master server) as well as my local > mirror and I find: > > Aug 11 08:20 stable.tar.gz -> ../authors/id/TIMB/perl5.004_04.tar.gz > Aug 11 08:20 stable.zip -> 5.0/maint/p500404.zip > Aug 11 07:05 stable_is_5.004_04 > > and: > > Aug 11 08:20 devel.tar.gz -> ../authors/id/GSAR/perl5.005_51.tar.gz > Aug 11 07:09 devel.zip > Aug 11 07:05 devel_is_5.005_51 I see these too. > Is that wrong? All the README's and web pages I find seem to > indicate 5.00>4<_04 as the latest stable release. Either I missed > something, or some CPAN maintainer is AWOL...It seems my sources > of perl news an information are not reputable...any pointers to > reputable web sites would be appreciated. These disagree with the announcements on comp..perl. 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