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David R. Linn wrote, some time around 23/06/2008 23:03: >> In Brief cc'ing the list, hope you don't mind. >> ... >> I suspect that Panic in regex processing (unknown regstclass 0) (bug >> #55466) does not concern the porters directly. >> >> http://xrl.us/et7ww > > Hmm ... > > If you are correct, can you suggest somewhere else I can report a > panic in the latest stable Perl interpreter when processing an > apparently valid regular expression? I'm not trying to be offensive; None taken. > I'm just trying to find the right place to report this error and > perlbug seems to have dropped it into a bug database where no one > but me (and maybe now you) have reviewed it. Also, who do you think > I should tell that the error message accompanying this panic does > not appear in the Perl v5.10.0 perldiag man page? Ah, that's a no-no, and you do well to highlight the issue. If you want to try a first cut at a documentation patch, and send it to the list as a C<diff -u> patch, there's an excellent chance it will be applied as is, and or discussed at length and changed beyond recognition... but it will be acted upon. > Any informed opinions on these questions will be appreciated. Oh, well, I should shut up then. From what I recall of my summary, the problem was more one of questionable code in a CPAN module, rather than the core per se. Therefore, the core should not be held responsible for breaking dubious constructs, c.f. Math::Pari and Net::SSH::whatever. This is not the same thing as gratuitously breaking backwards compatibility. My advice would be to contact the author of Net::IP and yell at them asking why their code breaks on 5.10, and what needs to be done to the module to get it to play nicely with blead. That said, I have >< this much of an idea why Net::IP breaks on 5.10 http://xrl.us/et7qo is perhaps germane to the discussion. Thanks, David -- stubborn tiny lights vs. clustering darkness forever ok?Thread Next