Re: Why does SA 3.0 require Perl 5.6.1?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Barry Jaspan writes:
> >The two main things I seem to remember are that perl 5.6.1 fixes a bunch
> >of bugs from 5.6.0
> 
> If anyone can remember what bugs were fixed that affect SpamAssassin, I'd 
> appreciate it.

if I recall correctly, all of them were ExtUtils::MakeMaker-related...
some crawling through the bugzilla ;) would probably show up the
details.

- --j.

> >FYI: MacOS X default perl has several issues.
> 
> No kidding.  :-)  Luckily, the setuid() and setgid() problem is not an 
> issue for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry
> 
> Note:  This message was dictated using voice recognition software.  Please 
> excuse any errors I missed.
> 
> >   The main (and rather
> >disturbing) one that I can recall is that it has absolutely no support
> >for setuid() and setgid(), which we came across when working on spamd.
> >
> >--
> >Randomly Generated Tagline:
> >"Well, we're safe for now.  Thank goodness we're in a bowling alley."
> >                  - From the movie Pleasantville
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Re: Why does SA 3.0 require Perl 5.6.1?

["Malte S. Stretz" <ms...@gmx.net>]

On Friday 10 September 2004 02:13 CET Justin Mason wrote:
> Barry Jaspan writes:
> > >The two main things I seem to remember are that perl 5.6.1 fixes a
> > > bunch of bugs from 5.6.0
> >
> > If anyone can remember what bugs were fixed that affect SpamAssassin,
> > I'd appreciate it.
>
> if I recall correctly, all of them were ExtUtils::MakeMaker-related...
> some crawling through the bugzilla ;) would probably show up the
> details.

Other bugs I remember (faintly):
 - Some other shipped modules were buggy.  Nothing which couldn't be fixed
   via CPAN.
 - A bug in the Perl 5.6.0 libs which occurred on some other systems than
   Linux.  IIRC on Solaris and I can't remember what it was exactly.

Cheers,
Malte

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