markm: dual life modules

Dear owner of one or more dual-life CPAN/bleadperl modules,

By using some recently developed tools that allow me to compare a CPAN
distribution with the allegedly equivalent one bundled with bleadperl,
I have now drawn up a list of all significant deviations, and I am
contacting all dual life authors which this effects. For two reasons:

Firstly to point out any such differences, with a general "wouldn't it be
great if blead and CPAN could get back in sync at some point" sentiment
attached.

Second, I am specifically trying to get the bundled modules in a fit state
to be included in 5.10.1. I'll explicitly mention it below if this affects
one of your modules. Note that the time-frame for significant changes to
be incorporated into 5.10.1 is now in the order of a week or two [Yes,
I've been saying this for months, but this time I really mean it. Maybe...  ]

Thanks,

Dave


    Text::Soundex

	There are two differences between 3.03 and blead. First, in
	Soundex.xs, a couple for K&R-style function declarations were
	changed to ANSI-C style in a commit entitled "Update to
	PathTools-3.22" (No, I don't understand what that has to do with
	Soundex either): 

		http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/81a4c76268

	Second, the test.pl file in the CPAN 3.03 tarball seems to roughly
	correspond with a file called ext/Text-Soundex/t/Soundex.t in
	blead, but if they share common ancestry, they appear to have
	diverged a long time ago, and I have no idea which one is the
	"good" one.

• markm: dual life modules by Dave Mitchell