--- chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 September 2007 22:46:19 Ovid wrote: > > > This has happened a couple of times now. Why don't you use release > > devel versions so that these issues become less serious in the > future? > > In your experience, do devel versions get the kind of testing that > would catch these issues sufficiently? > > In my experience, they don't.
For something as high profile as Test::Simple, it would get much more exposure than most modules. Plus, there wasn't much in the changelog which suggested this was a rush OMG Must Deliver Now sort of change (it had been six months since the last release). And it would be nice to have this run against a substantial portion of a minicpan install since breaking the toolchain is a very, very bad thing to do (as Schwern as *repeatedly* pounded into my head :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
