On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:50:18PM +0100, Steffen Schwigon wrote: > Paul Johnson <p...@pjcj.net> writes: > > I have tried, but I couldn't get perlbrew to automatically apply > > appropriate patches to old perls so they could be built today > > Not sure how old you mean. Older than 5.8?
Yes. Devel::Cover works (for some definition of) back to 5.6.1. As long as it's not too much effort I'd like to keep that support. At the moment the most effort is probably in keeping old working perls around for testing purposes. > If 5.8+ is enough then for my app-bootstrap-perl I only needed > > > https://github.com/renormalist/app-bootstrap-perl/blob/master/bin/bootstrap-perl#L458 That's a nice script. I use https://github.com/pjcj/buildperls/blob/master/buildperl.pl and it works well enough, but I'd prefer to work with perlbrew and let someone else worry about that maintenance effort. http://www.perlbrew.pl/Perlbrew-and-Friends.html implies that perlbrew should use patchperl from https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::PatchPerl (which is essentially the same software that I'm using) and it seems to be doing that, but the build fails. I don't really want to spend time debugging it, or my setup, or whatever is wrong, although I know that ideally I should. But if someone were able to say "just do X", where X is something really simple, I'd love to switch to just using perlbrew. If nothing else, it would make it much easier for anyone else to set up the full development/testing environment. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
