On Thu 24.Mar'11 at 18:54:20 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Jesse Vincent <je...@bestpractical.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yes, we've been bad about bumping version numbers when we had to patch
> something in blead. But, frankly, I'm afraid to try that because you
> have to touch about 30 files and if you don't do it perfectly the
> MakeMaker test suite takes revenge.
I believe we now have tests for this for everything that's blead-upstream.
> Plus there's no way to know what
> to bump it to since you might be taking a number that will also be
> taken by the next, divergent, CPAN release.
This is the problem with "firstcome" distributions :/ We may want to
consider killing off the concept of firstcome for the core.
> I apologize for merely waving a red flag without volunteering to do
> anything, but I'm a bit overwhelmed by a pile of actual bugs that need
> fixing.
Knowing about issues is important.
