Re: Perl 5.10.1 release notes help needed

"John E. Malmberg" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:33:26 -0500

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Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:45 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
> 
>> An update to the pod is in order for the PERL_VMS_POSIX_EXIT logical 
>> name.  That should help you with what to put in the delta file.
> 
> 
> Thanks, John, this is in blead at 
> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d9ac7b6>.
> 
> What about the GNV$UNIX_SHELL logical?  Should we leave it undocumented 
> or should we document it and say it's subject to change if a supported 
> mechanism for detecting the GNV bash shell becomes available?

I do not know when the GNV bash/make utilities will start setting that 
logical name.  Until we can get some testing done with it, either we 
should leave it undocumented or document it as experimental.

-John
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