diff --git a/parts.rst b/parts.rst index 832efaba..08eba760 100644 --- a/parts.rst +++ b/parts.rst @@ -1051,49 +1051,6 @@ perl 5.12.5 This is the final version that can be built by perl 5.8. Again, there are new files to be regenerated. -perl 5.15.7 -=========== - -This development version of perl is the latest version that can be built by perl -5.12. Usually, we would avoid using development releases of perl. However, in -the 5.15 development cycle, the Unicode system at the core of perl was changed -somewhat to use a new script ``regen/mk_invlists.pl``, which can only be built -by a 5.15 version. So, we need to build a 5.15 version to progress. 5.15.7 is -the last version with the old Unicode system. - -perl 5.16.3 -=========== - -This is the stable version of perl corresponding to 5.15 series. The -development version is insufficient to build the following perl releases, and -is quite buggy, but is enough to at least build 5.16.3. - -perl 5.17.2, 5.17.4 -=================== - -Throughout the 5.17/18 development cycle, the new Unicode system went through a -lot of significant internal changes and restructuring. In particular, the -system was transformed to use a lot more pregenerated code, particularly -macros. There are multiple instances where a new internal symbol or macro -was introduced, and then immediately used somewhere else. These instances each -depend on one another in one way or another. All these changes mean we end -up building *two* development versions of perl to break these cycles in the -development cycle. - -perl 5.18.4 -=========== - -This is another stable version of perl. We need this version because one final -aforementioned cycle has to be broken with this version. Also, the development -versions seem to be reasonably buggy again. - -perl 5.32.1 -=========== - -We finally compile a full version of Perl using Configure. This includes all base -extensions required and is the latest version of Perl. We are now basically able -to run any Perl application we want. - libarchive 3.5.2 ================ @@ -1170,6 +1127,80 @@ This version of binutils provides a more comprehensive set of programming tools creating and managing binary programs. It also includes modern versions of the ``ld`` linker, the ``as`` assembler and the ``ar`` program. +perl 5.15.7 +=========== + +This development version of perl is the latest version that can be built by perl +5.12. Usually, we would avoid using development releases of perl. However, in +the 5.15 development cycle, the Unicode system at the core of perl was changed +somewhat to use a new script ``regen/mk_invlists.pl``, which can only be built +by a 5.15 version. So, we need to build a 5.15 version to progress. 5.15.7 is +the last version with the old Unicode system. + +perl 5.16.3 +=========== + +This is the stable version of perl corresponding to 5.15 series. The +development version is insufficient to build the following perl releases, and +is quite buggy, but is enough to at least build 5.16.3. + +perl 5.17.2, 5.17.4 +=================== + +Throughout the 5.17/18 development cycle, the new Unicode system went through a +lot of significant internal changes and restructuring. In particular, the +system was transformed to use a lot more pregenerated code, particularly +macros. There are multiple instances where a new internal symbol or macro +was introduced, and then immediately used somewhere else. These instances each +depend on one another in one way or another. All these changes mean we end +up building *two* development versions of perl to break these cycles in the +development cycle. + +perl 5.18.4 +=========== + +This is another stable version of perl. We need this version because one final +aforementioned cycle has to be broken with this version. Also, the development +versions seem to be reasonably buggy again. Many patches need to be added to +this version to allow any future perl to be built. + +perl 5.22.4 +=========== + +This is the last version that can be fairly easily built with patching perl +5.18. The next version introduces a few new complexities, so this seems a good +target. We also backport the Unicode updates from 5.24 to 5.22 to allow 5.24 +to be built with this version (see 5.24 for more information). + +perl 5.24.4 +=========== + +Up until Perl 5.30, there are a number of updates and changes to the Unicode +tables, in fact too many to reasonably backport. The better solution is to +use the raw Unicode data and table generating script from 5.30 to an earlier +version. However, it uses too many new features to be used with 5.22, so we +need an intermediate version. 5.24 seems to work. + +perl 5.30.3 +=========== + +5.30 is the last version that builds cleanly with 5.24. 5.32+ have a weird +hanging bug in one of the regen scripts when using Perl 5.24, presumably +because of a new language construct that is not yet available. + +perl 5.36.3 +=========== + +5.36 is the last version that builds cleanly with 5.30. 5.38+ introduce a +number of new language features into the mk_invlists.pl script that are not +easily removed (there have been too many changes). 5.36 has enough support +of the new features. + +perl 5.42.0 +=========== + +5.42 is the latest version of Perl! The Perl bootstrap is complete. + gperf 3.1 =========