On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:40:09PM +0000, Martin J. Evans wrote: > I've applied Dave's patch and tested in on Windows with Perl 5.8.9 > and it now compiles without errors. > > Also the patch from Manoj Kumar is applied and this fixes gofer tests.
Great. Thanks Martin. > I'd suggest you (Tim) did one more development release with the > changes file amended to move the 2 changes post 15148 into a new > versions and I will test it on previously failing Windows platforms > and whatever other platforms I can find. In the mean time I'd also > suggest we did not apply any more changes. *nods* I've uploaded DBI-1.617_904.tar.gz > On the Windows smokers question, I tried that a few years ago and > found it a PITA eventually bringing my machine to a stand still. To > be honest I found smoke testing on Linux/AIX/Solaris a PITA too but > just not as much as Windows. Too many modules prompt even under > smoke testing or have incorrect dependencies so my exclusion list > just kept growing and growing. I just looked and I have 32263 smoke > reports but you've no idea what problems were caused generating them > and I eventually gave up - I really don't know how bingos (Chris > Williams) etc manage to generate so many. Personally, I'd change > cpan shell to send installation results by default but I don't > really understand the complexities of this (even if they were > anonymous). I'll pass that on. Tim.
