----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: CPAN.pm and the tester's Inline directory
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:41:42AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-22 22:15]:
> Now that we know that Inline has this bug,
I don't think it is an Inline bug. (We're referring to the bug report that
Slaven linked to, iinm.)
You don't build a perl extension with perl 5.8 and expect it to work with
perl 5.9. Nor should you expect an Inline::C script built with 5.8 to work
with 5.9.
and it has been
> reported to the author, it makes sense to do what we can to
> mitigate it when testing other peoples' code.
As long as you roll back the workaround after Inline is fixed,
fine.
Indeed. Inline is ... rather old though. OTOH, if someone else were to
take over maintenance, fixing it to just do something like use
.Inline/$^O instead of just .Inline/ for the cache should be pretty
simple.
I don't see how .Inline/$^O is going to help much.
Did you mean .Inline/$] ?
Even that wouldn't help with the particular case that prompted this thread.
Not that I'm volunteering. I've got far too many other things to do.
I don't think it would matter if you did volunteer - I doubt that Ingy is
about to hand it over ... and he shows no sign of updating Inline any time
soon.
I would be quite happy to take it over (and I'm not the only one).
Cheers,
Rob
