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From:
Neil Bowers
Date:
June 9, 2022 20:06
Subject:
Re: Pre-RFC: add version numbers to errors/warnings containingpackage names
Message ID:
d0d10b63-e2a6-4047-973f-39d4cefd7ea2@Spark
Hi Curtis,

We discussed this in last week’s PSC meeting. We like the idea, but worry that it might break a lot of tests.

A proxy for how much breakage this might cause would be to hack a copy of Perl to hardcode a fixed version number into relevant error messages and then see what percentage of CPAN distributions fail one or more tests as a result.

If someone wants to run that test, we’d like to see the result before letting this progress much further.

Cheers,
Neil

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