On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:42:07PM -0000, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > I can make the latest MakeMaker work into 5.6.2, with your suggested > changes, but it also implies a few changes to the testing infrastructure > (t/TEST) because of the modern test suite.
You should be able to just copy the existing t/TEST and t/harness into 5.6.2. > Also, it comes with Test::More (because its test suite use it), so if > I'm going to upgrade MakeMaker into 5.6.2, why not borgify Test::More > and its friends as well ? > > But this sounds like a big change for a release that I pictured fast and > minimal. So I wanted to hear the opinion of the experts : should I > upgrade MakeMaker in 5.6.2 ? What are the potential drawbacks and > incompatibilities ? are they worth the potential gain ? Well, MakeMaker is backward compatible to 5.5.3. Test::More is to 5.4.0. So there shouldn't be any mundane problems. Various weird interactions with the core, OTOH... who knows? Potential gain is bug fixes. Lots and lots of bug fixes. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Keep your stick on the ice. -- Red Green
