"Brian Dessent" <> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > dominix wrote: > > > {let forgive my backup issue} > > I completely understand what you mean, but I consider a community can help > > by itself, I really mean : "for some case I could help some perl > > fanatic^H^H^H passionate regarding cygwin issue", but it became > > impossible^H^H^H painfull regarding the dailly traffic on cygwin ML. > > I've gotten a lot of help from gerrit P.A. a few _years_ ago on this ML > > so I propose a specific ML as a starting point. At least it would help > > cygwin{perl fanatics} users, like you and me, (not so bad as a starting > > point) at best, in a possible future, it would help maintainers and > > authors.let's just free the potential. > > If you want to downgrade Perl to 5.8.0 it is possible, but of course not > supported. You can easily find the packages by using a FTP search > engine and knowing how they were named. For example: > <http://alltheweb.com/search?hits=50&cat=ftp&advanced=1&avkw=fogg&ftype=6&q= perl-5.8.0-1.tar.bz2> > That returns 27 mirror sites that still have the old version. Some of > them probably have updated since alltheweb spidered them, but I'm sure > you can find it if you look. >
that very kind of you. FYI: there were *1* valid perl-5.8.0-1 over the 27. (small ratio isn't it) BTW, that do the job. > no trouble with setup with me :-) but thanks for the trick (for future readers) -- dominix -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
