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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
March 24, 2012 09:39
Subject:
[perl #111936] Storable - storing 'code' test failure
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-4610-1332607178-1408.111936-15-0@perl.org
On Sat Mar 24 09:38:15 2012, sprout wrote:
> On Fri Mar 23 18:04:54 2012, jkeenan wrote:
> > On Thu Mar 22 07:59:46 2012, samuel.ferencik@barclays.com wrote:
> > > This is a bug report for perl from sferencik@gmail.com,
> > > generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.5.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm installing Storable 2.30. Here are some observations from
> > >    t/code.t:
> > > 
> > > 1) I get test failures when freezing/thawing Test::More::ok:
> > > 
> > 
> > Perl 5.8.5 is no longer supported.  Can you try this with the current
> > supported version of Perl, 5.14.2?  If you install that, you will
> > probably also get Storable version 2.34 along with it.
> 
> In any case, the tests for the CPAN Storable distribution shouldn’t be
> making unsafe assumptions.
> 

Also, I don’t think the lack of support for 5.8.x (in the sense of there
being new maintenance releases coming) should affect the support of CPAN
modules for existing 5.8.x distributions.  This ticket is, of course
about the CPAN distribution, for which blead is upstream.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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