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Re: Irssi returns error message after Perl update


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Sean Murphy  wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Reini Urban  wrote:
>>
>> You have three possibilities.
>>
>> Install perl 5.10 from the tarball in parallel as explained in the
>> 5.14 announcement,
>> or bug the irssi maintainer to update irssi,
>> or go back to perl 5.10
>
> After spending some time with this over the rest of the weekend, I
> came to the same conclusions.
>
> I don't want to be a pain, so I think I'll let the irssi maintainer
> get to it at their own pace.  I will, however,
> attempt to install 5.10 in parallel as you suggest. I'd rather have
> the updated version of perl, as I've just
> installed mosh, and mosh will not operate with the older perl package.

Then you can also try the experimental mosh-1.2.2-2 which is a 1.3
pre-release and
does not use perl anymore:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-07/msg00021.html
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