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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
September 11, 2014 03:23
Subject:
[perl #122731] Bleadperl v5.21.3-105-gc5e7362 breaks ZEFRAM/Data-Alias-1.18.tar.gz
Message ID:
rt-4.0.18-19123-1410405808-1700.122731-15-0@perl.org
On Wed Sep 10 18:35:03 2014, jkeenan wrote:
> On Mon Sep 08 01:41:38 2014, andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de
> wrote:
> > git bisect
> > ----------
> > commit c5e7362b9fa800205fbbf248000e4baf621d7bec
> > Author: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
> > Date:   Fri Aug 22 05:53:42 2014 -0700
> >
> > Stop using the value of PL_expect
> >
> > sample fail report
> > ------------------
> > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ba2dd63c-2c9d-11e4-a230-
> > 8e8fcc4edbc1
> >
> 
> The fact that Data::Alias was the CPAN module broken by this commit
> rang a bell.
> 
> See:
> http://perl.markmail.org/search/?q=Data%3A%3AAlias+list%3Aorg.perl.perl5-
> porters#query:Data%3A%3AAlias%20list%3Aorg.perl.perl5-
> porters+page:1+mid:vwtbboloob22dgrs+state:results
> 
> Data::Alias was broken in the period leading up to 5.18 -- not just by
> a post-5.20 commit.
> 
> See: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113920
> 
> See: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118943
> 
> To quote myself in RT #118943:
> 
> #####
> [W]e recognized
> (https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113920) in the period
> leading up to the release of Perl 5.18.0 that there were problems with
> Data::Alias above and beyond the Perl 5 core.  As one contributor put
> it:
> 
> "Data::Alias is doing creepy things that go far beyond the API."
> 
> The pumpking's judgment at that time was:
> 
> "Data::Alias is on the hook for this, unless the potential bug-fixer
> wants to open a new, specific ticket about how he or she would like
> things addressed."
> 
> My feeling is that Data::Alias is on the hook for *this* RT as well.
> My recommendation is that you report this test failure in
> Data::Alias's own queue at
> https://rt.cpan.org//Dist/Display.html?Queue=Data-Alias.
> 
> I also recommend that we close this ticket.
> ######
> 
> And, guess what?  I recommend we close this ticket as well.

I have already sent a patch to cpan ticket #98758.

I have seen and written plenty of crazy code.  Howbeit when I looked more closely at Data::Alias I was sore astonied.  I have never seen anything *that* crazy.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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