Re: Perl 5.8.0 packages
Le Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:24:10AM -0400, Ari Pollak écrivait:
> Dumb question - why are Perl 5.8.0 packages going into Debian if they
> haven't actually been labeled "stable" by the Perl team? Wouldn't they
> still be considered development at this point?
No, they have been declared "stable".
http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2002/07/18/580ann/
They follow a version numbering like the kernel.
5.7.x was the development branch
5.8.x is the stable branch
5.9.x is the next development branch
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/
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