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From:
Sam Vilain
Date:
March 12, 2007 03:09
Subject:
Re: Isn't it High Time for perl-5.8.9?
Message ID:
45F526BB.1050504@vilain.net
Sam Vilain wrote:
> 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...
>   

Bah, sorry, didn't see #40095.  But I don't see one for the other one,
did you open one?

Sam.

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