On May 18, 7:14am, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> On Saturday, 2002-05-18 at 08:06:42 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
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> > Perl 5.7.3 is known to be broken. Please use the current bleadperl
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> Please do not use Beta versions of perl for CPAN testing. And especially
> not bleadperl, as it is Alpha code.
This I'll agree with.
> Using more or less experimental code will not produce valid test
> results, so your work is wasted. Please stick to 5.6.1 and 5.005_03,
> those are the versions considered mpost stable. 5.6.0 has known bugs,
Umm... so does 5.005_03 (and, for that matter, 5.6.1). From observation here
when we had both 5.005_03 and 5.6.0 (now only the latter), I saw more
failures with 5.005_03 than with 5.6.0.
-Allen
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