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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:58:42PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 23:20, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> >>>> Sorry that I'm arriving late at this thread. I'll apply the
> >>>> appropriate fix to Test::Harness.
> >>> Is that something that can or needs to be in 5.10.1 ?
> >>
> >> Yes it can - and it's probably a good idea :)
> >
> > Hmmm - Jan just said it wasn't needed!
> >
> > At this late stage I'm very unkeen to change any dual-life modules
> > for 5.10.1 unless its needed to fix a show-stopper bug.
>
> If you decide to integrate this change from blead:
>
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ad256131
>
> then there is no need to get a Test::Harness changes as well. With the
> win32/win32.c patch in place the Test::Harness change would only make a
> difference on older Perl versions.
Okay thanks.
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