Martin Vorlaender wrote:

> Thanks, Peter, for the hint.
> 
> As I already wanted to have a look at Perl 5.6, I installed the
> CPAN version yesterday. It went fine exceptfor six tests - I'll look
> into these over the weekend. Environment is DEC C 5.7-004 and MMK
> on VMS/VAX 6.2, configuring the standard options (except no -D).

I too saw several `MMS test` failures.  I am pretty sure that
proposed patches for most if not all the failures have been posted
to the vmsperl list.  A few did not make it into 5.6.0 unfortunately.

> XML::Parser::Expat's DESCRIP.MMS still looks the same, i.e. the bug
> is still there. <sigh>

That is too bad.  Do you think a modification to MM_VMS.pm is in order,
or could it be worked around with changes to the Makefile.PL?

Peter Prymmer

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