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From:
Bram
Date:
May 5, 2008 12:31
Subject:
Re: helping 5.8.9
Message ID:
20080505213047.27fqgz61w4wwoo44@horde.wizbit.be
> 3: taking Porting/Maintainers.pl, identifying dual life modules, finding
>    their VERSION, and compare against a clean checkout of the same   
> VERSION from
>    CPAN, to make sure that files that claim to be the same are the same.
>    (This one is definitely incremental - every single one helps, so   
> (say) just
>    saying "I checked Digest::MD5 and it's the same as CPAN is a start, as I
>    can collate a list)

Would it be useful to turn this into a script?
(Decided to ask before starting on one)


What I'm thinking about:

a) fetching the latest version from CPAN - compare that with the  
version in ext/.
If it's the same - end + report as such.
If not the same:
- show the output of diff -u
- show the output of diff -b -B -u

b) Try to figure out what version is in ext/ (based on VERSION) get  
that version from CPAN and compare.

If it's the same - end + report as such.
If not the same:
- show the output of diff -u (should be ready for patch)
- show the output of diff -b -B -u
- create a patch that increments version numbers in ext/ (using _01,  
_02, ....)


Ideas? Comments?


Kind regards,

Bram




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