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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
September 6, 2010 14:26
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.12.2-RC1 is now available
Message ID:
20100906212525.GC19167@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> 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.


Lovely. Thank you. I'm going to have dinner, pick an epigram and then
I'll build the release.

-Jesse
> 
> Regards,
>     Slaven
> 
> -- 
> Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de
> 
>     Berlin Perl Mongers - http://berlin.pm.org

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