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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Dave Mitchell<davem@iabyn.com> wrote: >> ExtUtils::ParseXS >> >> The version in maint and blead has some local fixes to >> lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm >> lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp >> bumping the version to 2.19_01 >> >> It would be really great if these changes could be backported into >> a new CPAN release. > > Having looked a this a bit closer, I now see that there is a devel 2.19_02 > on CPAN from Aug 2008 that seems to incorporate all the bleed changes > (except a trivial s/hierachical/hierarchical/ typo fix in xsubpp). Do you > have an opinion as to whether I should release 5.10.1 with the unofficial > 2.19_01 release, or upgrade it to 2.19_02? > > I need to decide within the next few days. Dave, I've volunteered to do some maintenance on ExtUtils::CBuilder and ExtUtils::ParseXS (in addition to Module::Build). In addition to looking to CPAN Testers FAIL I've been trying to triage some of the RT queues, with most progress against M::B and just starting on the other two. Here's where things stand, from most confident to least confident. =over =item Module::Build Module::Build 0.33_04 was released to CPAN to fix issues on 5.6.2 and broken Archive::Zip. 0.33_03 was regression tested against 0.33 with good results. And I have a 0.33_05 prepped and will be releasing it shortly to address a few more minor bugs in creation of META.yml. I'm very confident in 0.33_05 as a release candidate for 0.34. I'll put together a patch for blead for 0.33_05 as soon as I publish it to CPAN. It should get pulled into 5.10.1. I will run one more regression test of 0.33_05 against 0.33 before releasing 0.34. That should take a couple days and if all goes well, it will just be a version number change for blead thereafter. =item ExtUtils::CBuilder I released ExtUtils::CBuilder 0.25 yesterday. Initial smoke results are good, though a couple FAILs popped up in situations where it looks like there might not be a compiler configured. I have 0.25_01 prepped to address these test failures and will release it soon. It needs a little time to bask in the hot love of the smoke testers, but is probably ready to pull into blead shortly thereafter. =item ExtUtils::ParseXS I've only just started looking at it. Seems to universally fail 5.6.2 due to some change between 2.19 and 2.19_02. Someone with more XS fu will need to help me find a backwards-compatible alternative. See:http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/12/msg2797994.html That shouldn't hold up 5.10.1, but I'm not ready to release anything new onto CPAN until that gets addressed. Nevertheless, I can prepare a patch for 2.19_02 for blead. =back Regards, David GoldenThread Previous | Thread Next