I have released a new alpha version of diagnostics-1.2 on CPAN (user JFORGET). It should be available in a few hours.
The new features, compared with the previous alpha version: - use File::Spec, so it will hopefully work with VMS, Mac OS and OS/2 - new parameter encoding, so the output will be UTF-8 or other - some (not all) new 5.8.0 messages are explained in French - advice to module writers regarding diagnostics.pm - a few bug fixes. The new featuers compared with the stable version - you can select the language for the explanations (for the moment, only French available) - you can select a module instead of, or in addition to, the Perl compiler/interpreter - a few bug fixes. - compatible with 5.6.0 or later. Jean Forget -- I couldn't even find anything to read. The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them. -- Douglas Adams, the Salmon of Doubt