=head1 Supported Platforms
-As of early 2001 (the Perl release 5.6.1), the following platforms are
-able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution
-available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
+As of early 2001 (the Perl releases 5.6.1 and 5.7.1), the following
+platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
+distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
AIX
AmigaOS
list macperl-porters@macperl.org for more information.
3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
-The following platforms worked for the previous release (5.6.0),
-but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.1 release.
-There is a very good chance that these will work fine with 5.6.1.
+The following platforms worked for the previous releases (5.6.0 and 5.7.0),
+but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.7.1 release.
+There is a very good chance that these will work fine with the 5.7.1.
DomainOS
Hurd
Windows Me
The following platform worked for the 5.005_03 major release but not
-5.6.0. Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation
-in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC
-platform. While Perl 5.6.1 will build on this platform some
+for 5.6.0. Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string
+representation in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 introduced incompatibilities in this
+EBCDIC platform. While Perl 5.7.1 will build on this platform some
regression tests may fail and the C<use utf8;> pragma typically
-introduces text handling errors. UTF-8 support for this platform may
-be enabled in a future release:
+introduces text handling errors.
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