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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:13 -0700, "Darren Duncan" <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > So I read the 5.12.2 delta documentation and it mentioned some updated > core > modules plus some bug fixes and documentation updates. > > But then I asked search.cpan.org to show me a diff from 5.12.1, thinking > it > would be relatively small and so wouldn't say "too large". > > http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=perl-5.12.1&to=perl-5.12.2-RC1 > > But the results there seem wrong, and say these were the only changed > files: > > AUTHORS > Configure > cpan/CPANPLUS/bin/cpanp-run-perl > cpan/Cwd/lib/File/Spec.pm > cpan/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm > cpan/Cwd/t/Spec.t > cpan/Module-Load-Conditional/lib/Module/Load/Conditional.pm > > Also, looking at the raw diff says "file doesn't exist". > > Maybe this is a search.cpan.org problem, but in case it isn't, this > implies > something was botched when making the 5.12.2 tarball. > > I haven't yet tried downloading 5.12.2 and running a diff on it on my own > machine. It's most likely a problem for *one of the search.cpan.org mirrors* (I'm given to understand that s.c.o is about 4 machines in different places, correct me if I'm wrong...) The weblocal.ca mirror does not give me this error (look in the lower right-hand corner of a page for who's providing the mirror) --Curtis -- Curtis Jewell csjewell@cpan.org http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/ perl@csjewell.fastmail.us http://csjewell.comyr.org/perl/ "Your random numbers are not that random" -- perl-5.10.1.tar.gz/util.c Strawberry Perl for Windows betas: http://strawberryperl.com/beta/Thread Previous | Thread Next