>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marc> The perl in 4.1 is not 100% stock, and the one in 4.2 will be slightly
Marc> farther from that.

Marc> We have a few minor fixes and adaptations that are not in 5.8.8:
Marc> - handling of E<copy> in various pod converters
Marc> - path lookup to handle /usr/local along /usr

Marc> and possibly a few others I'm not too familiar with...

I presume you've sent those changes to perl5-porters to get them
into 5.8.9 or 5.10.1.  I'd hate to see a divergence from lack of communication.

Marc> and we are starting to make use of basic OpenBSD
Marc> libc code (crypto hashes and mkstemp) in XS code that will yield the same
Marc> interface as the CPAN perl module.

Might be interesting to make this available as a CPAN module too.

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