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On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:34:22AM -0600, Ken Williams wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >This change is backwards incompatible and breaks existing programs. > > > >How am I meant to merge it into maint? > > I asked about this issue a couple weeks ago on p5p and got no > responses. I guess I'm considering this just a normal bug fix though, > since abs2rel() is documented to return a path, and the empty string is > not a valid path. My preference would be to simply integrate 3.13 (or > 3.14 now, actually) as-is into maint. Sorry, I missed the significance of that message at the time. > Do you know any specific things that break, so we could get a sense of > how widespread the problem might be? For instance, do any of svk breaks. For example, the svk build from FreeBSD ports fails: $ svk pull perl_hacks Assertion failed: (is_canonical (component, clen)), function svn_path_join, file subversion/libsvn_subr/path.c, line 115. (clkao confirms that this change is the underlying cause) > maintperl's own tests fail? Not that I am aware of, because I have not attempted to merge it. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next