Perlish tarballs available

[dustin]

As was discussed a few months ago, Amanda's going to Perl. That means that we're building Perl interfaces to the Amanda core, and beginning to rewrite Amanda applications in Perl.

This will be a part of the next release, which is coming up soon. Of course, it's a big change, so we need some serious help testing it out. To that end, we have a tarball available on the community builds page:
[url]http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php[/url]

Please download the patch and test it out. Detailed instructions are at
[url]http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Testing[/url]
Please let us know about any errors you encounter.

If you're a Perl hacker, please also take a look at
[url]http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Perl_Interface[/url]
and consider chipping in.

I will be hosting an interactive webinar on the 17th to talk about this exciting work, and how you can get involved. See [url]http://www.zmanda.com/events.html[/url] for the details.

Dustin