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On Thu 24.Mar'11 at 18:54:20 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> wrote: > > Yes, we've been bad about bumping version numbers when we had to patch > something in blead. But, frankly, I'm afraid to try that because you > have to touch about 30 files and if you don't do it perfectly the > MakeMaker test suite takes revenge. I believe we now have tests for this for everything that's blead-upstream. > Plus there's no way to know what > to bump it to since you might be taking a number that will also be > taken by the next, divergent, CPAN release. This is the problem with "firstcome" distributions :/ We may want to consider killing off the concept of firstcome for the core. > I apologize for merely waving a red flag without volunteering to do > anything, but I'm a bit overwhelmed by a pile of actual bugs that need > fixing. Knowing about issues is important.Thread Previous | Thread Next