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Re: Wanted: program that makes working on "Bleadperl breaks" bugs easy

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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
December 22, 2013 01:26
Subject:
Re: Wanted: program that makes working on "Bleadperl breaks" bugs easy
Message ID:
20131222012647.7898.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
James Keenan wrote:
> Now, I suspect that some p5p-ers have already invested a lot
> of time over the years to get something which is 90%+ of
> this turnkey solution already.  If so, I would like to hear
> from you, because getting such a turnkey solution will
> enable me to take on these "Bleadperl breaks" problems as
> well.

What I usually do is not so simple.

I rsync, compile and install blead with -DDEBUGGING, run
cpan5.19.whatever, 'look Module::Name', and then start playing around
with it.  That means digging through tests and source code, trying to
figure out what is happening.  For difficult bugs, that may mean copy-
ing requisite modules into its blib/ folder and gutting them, till I
get the failure down to something manageable.

As for simply checking whether a module is fixed yet, I just run 'test
Module::Name' from the cpan shell after installing blead.


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