Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!mhres!jv
From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: perl patches 16 and 17
Message-ID: <2616@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 21 Nov 88 22:30:33 GMT
References: <935@taux01.UUCP>
Organization: Multihouse NV, the Netherlands
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From article <935@taux01.UUCP>, by cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler):
> I tried to apply patches 16 and 17 to perl but had a problem compiling
> perly.c.  In line 526 it says that origargv is undefined. [...]
> Can we have an
> official patch for this, Larry?  Thanks.

I ran into the same problems, so I second this.

If I may express my humble opinion (although I consider Larry to
be a real software engineering guru): patches 16/17 have
introduced new functionality to perl, namely 'tainting', '$]' and
'getc'.
Does this not deserve incrementing the perl version number to 2.1
instead of just the patchlevel?

When looking for other changes, I compared the new manual page
with an older one. Then I found out that the perl version number
(including current patchlevel) does not appear in the (printed)
documentation. Shouldn't it be included somewhere?

BTW: currently perl identifies itself with:
  $Header: perly.c,v 2.0.1.9 88/11/19 00:14:36 lwall Locked $
  Patch level: 17
which occurs to me a bit cryptic.
-- 
	Johan