need your help to test mod_perl with perl-5.8.1-RC3

Jarkko has just released perl-5.8.1-RC3. Quite a few things have changed since 
5.8.0. So it's *very* important that you test your code with this release and 
immediatelly report to p5p if you have any problems, since Jarkko wants to 
release 5.8.1 any moment now.

Any version of mod_perl 1.x works with perl-5.8.1-RC3. However for mod_perl 
2.0 you must use the current cvs version. mod_perl 1.99_09 and earlier 
releases won't work with perl-5.8.1-RC3. You can get it from here:
http://perl.apache.org/download/source.html#Development_mod_perl_2_0_Source_Distribution

If you can test your favorite CPAN modules with this perl release you will do 
yourself and others a big favor if you discover some bugs and get them fixed 
before 5.8.1 sees the light.

Thanks.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxxxxx>
To: perl5-porters@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RC3 is out

        Lord Hong had a mind like a knife, although possibly
        a knife with a curved blade.
        -- Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"

        http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC2.tar.bz
        http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC2.tar.gz

(or rsync -avz ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x)

and in a while the public

        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1-RC3.tar.gz

The randomised hashes are on.  Therefore please unleash your code base
on this, or maybe it's vice versa.  Since we are talking randomised
here, run the tests a few times...

Also, I'm still wary of the new module PKI signature hooks in CPAN.pm,
please test that carefully too (like for example how does it look and
feel when installed to a box with no Perl, or to a box with no gpg).

I'm very eager to get the 5.8.1 final out as soon as possible, not that
this comes as a big surprise to anyone.

--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxxxxx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen

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