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Re: Comparing 5.10.1 and 5.12.0-RC0

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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
March 29, 2010 07:03
Subject:
Re: Comparing 5.10.1 and 5.12.0-RC0
Message ID:
20100329132302.GB7753@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:11:28PM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> I have a smoker running comparing CPAN modules between 5.10.1 and
> 5.12.0-RC0. The smoker is still running (for now I have checked CPAN
> distributions released 2008..2010, and right now the distributions from
> 2006..2007 are checked). An already categorized comparison of the test
> results can be downloaded here: http://gist.github.com/347647 . This
> file is best viewed within emacs' org-mode.
> 
> The plan is to get all differences resolved in some way, be it as
> identified to be mentioned in perl5120delta.pod, or to be the author's
> fault, or whatever.

This is fantastic. Thank you!   Man, I wish we had this a month ago.  
How hard would it be to automate this so it could run every week or month and
report new regressions?  (Feel free to punt that question until after
5.12 comes out).  (Feel free to punt that question until after 5.12
comes out).

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