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From:
Slaven Rezic
Date:
September 6, 2010 14:25
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.12.2-RC1 is now available
Message ID:
87pqwqva2w.fsf@biokovo.herceg.de
Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de> writes:

> Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> It will be probably still 36 hours or so. The smoker is already running
> since 1th of September.

The smoker has finished. And there were no regressions.

Regards,
    Slaven

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