Mailing List Archive: *** ANNOUNCEMENT Release of Build 100

*** ANNOUNCEMENT Release of Build 100

Dec 3, 1995, 10:22 AM

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Happy holidays everyone!

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Release of Perl5 build 100 from hip communications inc.!
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Source available by ftp at:
ftp://ntperl.hip.com/ntperl/perl5100/Perl5.100.src.zip

Intel Binary available by ftp at:
ftp://ntperl.hip.com/ntperl/perl5100/Perl5.100.i86.zip

These are also available from our Perl info page at:
http://info.hip.com/ntperl/

There is a FAQ now at:
http://info.hip.com/ntperl/PerlFaq.htm

NOTE: - Does not work on Win95

Changes
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- Now searches PERLLIB environment variable for @INC path.
- Process loading now much faster, now does explicit loading on all
system libraries except for kernel32.dll.
- dynamic loading of module extensions added. Still in testing, use at your
own risk. No MakeMaker available.
- OLE automation schema completely overhauled. Now much simpler, faster,
cleaner, nicer, you name it you got it. Embedded objects supported. Sorry,
still can't do OCX's.
- Added Socket.pm ("use Socket" is the equivalent to "use Winsock").
- All of perl split into small exe and big dll. runs much faster!
- Cwd.pm patched to use portable methods. Thanks Tim Bunce for patch.
- All source files now have notice regarding GPL or Artistic License.

Bugs fixed
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- case smashing on %ENV hash.
- 'pwd' unix'isms removed.
- various problems with pipes
- lots of other little things.

known issues

- Some problems with sockets.
- No Win95 ( Sorry, next time )
- Ctrl-C (break) signal doesn't work if Perl spawns another perl process.
NOTE:
We have only built this code base on the Intel platform.
There could be some problems on other platforms -
let us now if you hit anything major.

Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT Release of Build 100 [ In reply to ]

Tim.Bunce at ig

Dec 4, 1995, 11:11 AM

Post #2 of 3 (259 views)

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> From: owner-Perl-Win32_announce@mail.hip.com
>
> Happy holidays everyone!
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Release of Perl5 build 100 from hip communications inc.!
> --------------------------------------------------------

It would be helpful if you could include the perl patch
that this perl port is based on.

Is it still based on 5.001l ?

If so, what plans do you have to move to 5.002 (beta or post beta)?

> Source available by ftp at:
> ftp://ntperl.hip.com/ntperl/perl5100/Perl5.100.src.zip

A better file and directory naming scheme for releases would probably
be a good idea. Calling a port based on Perl5.001l perl5.100 and then,
for example, calling a perl5.002 based port perl5.101 is less
than intuitive.

The _real_ perl version number is very important to end users since module
developers using new features will add require 5.002; require 5.003;
etc to their code.

> - dynamic loading of module extensions added. Still in testing, use at your
> own risk. No MakeMaker available.
> - Added Socket.pm ("use Socket" is the equivalent to "use Winsock").
> - All of perl split into small exe and big dll. runs much faster!
> - Cwd.pm patched to use portable methods. Thanks Tim Bunce for patch.
> - All source files now have notice regarding GPL or Artistic License.

Thanks.

Tim.

Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT Release of Build 100 [ In reply to ]

Wei-Yuen_Tan at hip

Dec 5, 1995, 5:11 PM

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>Is it still based on 5.001l ?

5.001m, and hopefully 5.001n soon.

>If so, what plans do you have to move to 5.002 (beta or post beta)?

Probably post beta.

Wei-Yuen_Tan@hip.com
Grunt worker
h i p c o m m u n i c a t i o n s i n c.