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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
September 5, 2010 15:11
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.12.2-RC1 is now available
Message ID:
20100905220959.GY19167@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> writes:
> 
> > It's very important that you test this release with any software written
> > in Perl which you use or maintain. If no "showstopper" class bugs are
> > found in the next few days, we will release a virtually identical
> > tarball as Perl 5.12.2.
> 
> I have currently a "parallel smoker" running testing CPAN distributions
> with two perls, 5.12.1 and 5.12.2-RC1. So far ~10000 distributions are
> tested and there seem to be no regressions. 

You are my new hero. Thank you!

> The smoker is still running.
> I plan to test at least 14000 distributions (everything released since
> 2005).

Fantastic. Do you expect that will finish in the next 12 hours?

Thanks again,
Jesse

> Regards,
>     Slaven
> 
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