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From:
Steffen Mueller
Date:
May 7, 2013 05:12
Subject:
Re: How on earth did we manage to break pack() so badly?
Message ID:
51888D3F.4020905@cpan.org
On 05/07/2013 12:21 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> [2013-05-01T10:32:07]
>> [pack is a mess]
>
> I would like to address "the pack problem," but am going to avoid wading into
> this until 5.18.0 is shipped, as my time has been crunched lately.  So I'm just
> writing to say, "I care and will write more," that that's all.

That's likely the best choice in the circumstances and I would probably 
do the same in your shoes. Not a 5.16=>5.18 regression and we can't let 
5.18 wait for all bugs forever.

Nonetheless, if we're going to upgrade to 5.18 at work, I could entirely 
see this as being the first case of us not using a pristine upstream 
perl. We've been actively trying not to go down that path.

--Steffen

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