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Re: Isn't it High Time for perl-5.8.9?

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From:
Sam Vilain
Date:
March 12, 2007 03:06
Subject:
Re: Isn't it High Time for perl-5.8.9?
Message ID:
45F5261A.5020207@vilain.net
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> There are several bugs that I'm aware of in perl-5.8.x. 
> The one that most bothers me is:
>
> http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/31605
>
> Which was introduced in perl-5.8.8 and did not exist in perl-5.8.7. It makes 
> debugging many programs including most Test::More-based test scripts very 
> painful.
>
> Another bug that I'm aware of is:
>
> http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/31775
>
> It existed in the entire perl-5.8.x branch and may have some security 
> implications.
>   

Shlomi, are you able to submit these as patches against Perl maint,
adding test cases? Perhaps in rt.perl.org tickets? It's quite a bit of
work to extract this from your use.perl.org postings...

Sam.


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