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Le 28/06/2020 à 21:01, James E Keenan a écrit : > On 6/28/20 1:23 PM, Christian Walde wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:57:39 +0200, John Lightsey <john@nixnuts.net> >> wrote: >> >>> I'd love to see Perl 8 fix [...] Windows support. >> >> 2 things here: >> >> 1. Please don't phrase it in a way that implies Perl doesn't support >> windows. I've been developing Perl on windows for over a decade and it >> works. >> > > Unfortunately, the data available to us suggests we have problems > maintaining Perl on Windows in optimal condition. > > Go to http://perl5.test-smoke.org/search and plug in "MSWin32" to the > OSname drop-down. Observe a long list of FAILs. > > Now, I grant you that it only takes one unit test failure in one test > file to grade the whole smoke-test run FAIL. Nonetheless, we do a good > job of getting PASSes on Linux and at least 3 of the BSDs. > > We need smoke-test reports preferably (a) from recent Windows releases > for the business environment; and (b) from testers skilled enough in, > and dedicated enough to, Windows to be able to diagnose failures and > work with us to fix them. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan I have tried several times but the link above does not seem to work for me. As I have just written in an other thread, #120797 has AFAIK received no love since 2013. At the time it prevented Dist-Zilla, Pod-Weaver, Config-INI and others to install on Windows. I would not be too surprised if some of the failures above are related to that. One possible way to check would be to try and install the failing distribs on a linux box but with PERLIO=crlf, and see whether this produces the same errors than on windows. Or to try on a windows box but with PERLIO=unix and see whether it passes (at the time I had almost succeeded in installing Dist::Zilla on windows with this trick). YMMV. Best regards, --ChristianThread Previous | Thread Next