On 18/08/2024 18:56, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
I'm going to release Perl 5.40.0 to Cygwin in a few days. I've skipped 5.38 in order to update only every second year (which I've done since the 5.22 release). I haven't seen any trouble in my own Perl distribution packages from the update even though there are lots of them that haven't been updated since at least 5.22. So I hope it will be smooth sailing for anything else depending on Perl also. Any maintainer having packages that depend on perl5_036 or below should re-release or upgrade these soon-ish after the Perl update is available, as otherwise users are either blocked from upgrading Perl or will have to uninstall the affected packages. The rebuilt packages need to have a dependency on perl5_040, which cygport provides automatically when building with the new Perl. Packages that need an update from perl5_036 are:
[...] The current list of things still needing rebuilds can be found at: https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html
