[Fwd: This Week on perl5-porters - 28 April-3 May 2008]

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5.6.x in the wild

~ A recent change to the GNU "coreutils" package has broken the
~ Configure script for 5.6.x (or rather, it's been fixed for more recent
~ perls for ages, but hasn't been, and is unlikely to be backported to
~ 5.6.x).

~ Jesse Vincent asked for a show of hands to see how many porters are
~ still using 5.6, to gauge the importance of creating a fix for
~ software that was released eight years ago.

~ Gabor Szabo won a surprisingly crowded race, by having the courage to
~ admit that he has a client still running perl 4.x in a couple of
~ places.

~ an unscientific survey
~ http://xrl.us/bkb8m

~ GNU coreutils 6.9 breaks F (#53446)
~ http://xrl.us/bkca2

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