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2009/7/26 Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:36:31PM +0200, demerphq wrote: >> Hmm, no i dont think this is it. The changes im thinking of were to basic.t >> >> I think it was 1487aac67a72b9f87b24113f65b4d878401bee33, which appears >> to have stomped on the changes that were made in >> 4954abf77fcbac122d63699b1b3921b4d44d4570 that split basic.t into >> basic.pl and basic_finish.pl and then two separate basic.t's one that >> would be used by EUI, and would NOT be in the core, and one used by >> EUMM and that would be in the core. >> >> It looks like, probably due to me not following through properly, that >> this change didnt go upstream to EUMM proper, and thus Nicholas >> (probably accidentally) stomped on the change when he upgraded to EUMM >> 6.49_01. Which then meant that changes that might have gone in to >> basic_finish.pl from the EUI package wouldnt end up being executed, as >> basic.pl/basic_finish.pl are no longer used. >> >> Its a pity this happened, as the whole idea of the changes in 4954abf >> were meant to make it possible to have identical tests in EUMM/EUI and >> Core, but somehow it backfired and made things worse. :-( > > So what implications are there for 5.10.1? None. Schwern and I will have to sort it out amongst ourselves. And for now im going to leave basic.pl in place even tho it isnt being used, please leave it until schwern and i can negotiate a solution to this. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next