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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
October 14, 2003 07:38
Subject:
Re: Triage, announcement preview
Message ID:
20031014143720.GP89417@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:07:14PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> > > New bugs will be created in the old way,
> > 
> > Which way is that?  Ill-defined requirements, usually from Marketing? 
> > Or drunken 4am hacking sessions?
> 
> Mix in a misbehaved stoat and light the blue touch-paper.
> 
> I'll probably reword that as "raised in the old way".  Is mentioning
> the perlbug utility redundant?

Not at all. I'd say "please mention perlbug" because it gives -V
output, which is often useful.
"I'm running RedHat's perl" is not usually as useful as a big splat of
-V from RedHat's perl.

Nicholas Clark

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