Closed Bug 297415 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Outdated information on the build page (about ActiveState perl 5.8.x being broken)

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: procat, Assigned: endico)

References

(
URL
)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050606 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050606 Firefox/1.0+

"You may use ActiveState perl instead of the perl package in cygwin if you
prefer. Version 5.8.x is broken at the moment because of bug 232002 and bug
232003, so use 5.6.x for now."

Both of these bugs are marked resolved so this notice might not be needed anymore.

Reproducible: Always
CCing bsmedberg, who is listed as a maintainer of that page.
Severity: trivial → normal
Summary: Outdated information on the build page. → Outdated information on the build page (about ActiveState perl 5.8.x being broken)
The page has moved to:
  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#software
and now says
"You may use ActiveState perl instead of the perl package in cygwin if you prefer."

Resolving WFM.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Component: Mozilla Developer → Documentation Requests
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Documentation → Mozilla Developer Center
Component: Documentation Requests → Documentation
Component: Documentation → General
Product: Mozilla Developer Network → Developer Documentation

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