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Perl Releases
Description
This page provides an archive of all the public releases of Perl.
The Perl repository is managed using the
Perforce source code
management tool. You don't need Perforce to get at these
files. You'll be in business if you have either rsync (preferable),
or an ftp client that can do recursive downloads of only the files
you don't already have (can be inefficient).
If you're looking for something interactive where you can
track specific changes or files in the repository, you may want to
try http://opensource.ActiveState.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse first.
License
The Perl License
Maintainer
Gurusamy Sarathy (gsar@activestate.com)
Download
Description of Download page
The changes-all.gz file summarizes all the changes that have happened
since the beginning of the repository in all the various branches of
development. changes-latest.gz contains everything since the last
public development release. When a new release happens, these
files get put under a directory named after that release.
The perl-current directory is the latest state of the mainline
(the master branch from which development releases are made).
The perl-current-diffs directory contains patches for each change
entered into the master branch (aka "mainline") of the Perl repository
since the last development release. Earlier diffs are under
directories named after those earlier releases.
The perl-5.6.x directory is the latest state of the 5.6 maintenance
branch (the branch from which maintenance releases are made).
The perl-5.6.x-diffs directory contains patches for each change
entered into the 5.6.x branch of the Perl repository since the
last maintenance release. Earlier diffs are under directories
named after those earlier releases.
All the perl-* directories are also served via rsync. You can use
the following commands to update to the latest state in these
directories:
rsync -avz rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ current
rsync -avz rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current-diffs/ current-diffs
rsync -avz rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-5.6.x/ 5.6.x
rsync -avz rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-5.6.x-diffs/ 5.6.x-diffs
If you are applying these patches, you'll need to make sure you have
GNU patch v2.5 or later and the latest release against which the
diffs are made. Some files in the perl distribution have carriage-returns
by design. You'll need to remove them before you you can apply the
patches.
% find -name \* -print | xargs perl -pi -e 's/\r$//'
% patch -p1 -N < diffs/3479
% patch -p1 -N < diffs/3480
[..etc..]
Note that you are completely and severely on your own if you are using
any of this. Subscribing to the perl5-porters list is a good idea if
you don't mind hundreds of messages and a few flames mixed in with
occasional wisdom on whatever happens to be the very latest Perl
perversion. See http://www.perl.org/ for where that is.
Enjoy!
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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