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[perl #111936] Storable - storing 'code' test failure

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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
April 22, 2012 20:51
Subject:
[perl #111936] Storable - storing 'code' test failure
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-4610-1335153069-1084.111936-15-0@perl.org
On Sat Mar 24 09:39:38 2012, sprout wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I can’t reproduce this at all.  The t/code.t that comes with
Storable 2.30 doesn’t try to freeze Test::More::ok at all.  So I can
only ask where this distribution came from.  And was it really 2.30?

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Father Chrysostomos


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