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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
March 7, 2013 11:23
Subject:
[perl #116961] Data::Dumper 2.143 tests failures on 5.10.1
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-28177-1362655397-93.116961-15-0@perl.org
On Wed Mar 06 21:36:36 2013, smueller@cpan.org wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 03:55 AM, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> > On Sat Mar 02 19:58:34 2013, xdg@xdg.me wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On older Perl's, XS doesn't load because of a missing symbol:
> >>
> >>      Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR
> >>
> >
> > Does this mean that, going forward from 2.143, we should not support the
> > XS version when compiled on Perls older than 5.14.0?
> >
> >  From a maintenance point-of-view, I would endorse that.
> 
> That would cripple the module.
> 

Well, do you have a way around the problem David describes above?

I am in the process of restructuring the test suite so as not to mix
tests of the XS and pure perl versions inappropriately.  That will
resolve most of the test failures, but not all of them.

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