On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:16:04AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > This MakeMaker release has several totally avoidable bugs. The most odious of > which is that it won't pass tests on a clean 5.8.8. This was present in > 6.51_03 and 6.51_04. Nobody caught it. It also clearly fails on VMS, again > present in several alphas. On top of that it busts building bleadperl on > Windows and VMS. Now I need to spend the weekend fixing these bugs.
> just wasted tonight unexpectedly rewriting my DSL. If someone could do this, > set up smoke bots [1] and smolder system running off the github repositories, It sounds like pretty much the same task as the CPAN testers already enjoy doing. Clearly they are motivated - are they the right people to ask? But what surprises me is that you released 6.51_03 and 6.51_04 as alphas to CPAN, and some smokers tested them: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=ExtUtils-MakeMaker+6.51_04 http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=ExtUtils-MakeMaker+6.51_03 All pass. There are passes on 5.8.8. 6.52 itself only has passes on 5.8.8: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=ExtUtils-MakeMaker+6.52 So how do the smokers' systems differ from the clean 5.8.8 that it won't pass tests on? Nicholas Clark
