From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 05:59:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: cleanup AVAILABILITY and mention binaries X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8bc4a6bb5ce85516ae3e5c2d33ad6dbc559c5ef7;hp=61f114aad960d46fcfb765ab137f0db8a54bb144;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git cleanup AVAILABILITY and mention binaries p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5516 --- diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 474b416..c74dd2f 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html AIX - DOS DJGPP 1) + DOS DJGPP 1) FreeBSD HP-UX IRIX @@ -256,10 +256,11 @@ distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1 4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ -The following platforms worked for the previous major release (5.005_03 -being the latest maintenance release of that, as of March 2000), but we -did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 release of Perl. -There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0. +The following platforms worked for the previous major release +(5.005_04 being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early +March 2000), but be did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 +release of Perl. There is a very good chance that these will work +just fine with 5.6.0. A/UX BeOS @@ -277,10 +278,10 @@ There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0. SVR4 Ultrix -The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_03 -being the latest maintenance release of that, as of March 2000). +The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_04 +being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early March 2000). However, standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation -in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities with this EBCDIC platform. +in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC platform. Support for this platform may be enabled in a future release: OS390 1) @@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release: Netware The following platforms have their own source code distributions and -binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html : +binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html: Perl release @@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html : Tandem Guardian 5.004 The following platforms have only binaries available via -http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html : +http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html: Perl release @@ -358,6 +359,11 @@ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html : AOS 5.002 LynxOS 5.004_02 +Although we do suggest that you always build your own Perl from the +source code, both for maximal configurability and for security, +in case you are in a hurry you can check the URL +http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html for binary releases. + =head1 ENVIRONMENT See L.