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RE: 5.10.1-RC1 Test::Harness ruins @INC

From:
Jan Dubois
Date:
August 11, 2009 16:49
Subject:
RE: 5.10.1-RC1 Test::Harness ruins @INC
Message ID:
02fa01ca1ade$63d9a3f0$2b8cebd0$@com
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:58:42PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > On 11 Aug 2009, at 23:20, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>>>> Sorry that I'm arriving late at this thread. I'll apply the
>>>> appropriate fix to Test::Harness.
>>> Is that something that can or needs to be in 5.10.1 ?
>>
>> Yes it can - and it's probably a good idea :)
>
> Hmmm - Jan just said it wasn't needed!
> 
> At this late stage I'm very unkeen to change any dual-life modules
> for 5.10.1 unless its needed to fix a show-stopper bug.

If you decide to integrate this change from blead:

    http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ad256131

then there is no need to get a Test::Harness changes as well. With the
win32/win32.c patch in place the Test::Harness change would only make a
difference on older Perl versions.

Cheers,
-Jan

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