On 28 Oct 2008, at 17:04, Chris Weyl wrote:
On a F-8 system with the latest perl (perl-5.8.8-41fc8), the first
test failed, but the second test passes. This makes me worry, as
we're failing a test here on an F-8 system that doesn't actually have
this problem.
Its changed since then :-)
Theres been quite a lot of to and fro discussion in the last 24 hours
on the best way of doing things, and its changed from my original
implementation (a few times actually).
I haven't been testing on F8, but have on Centos 5.2 systems with both
the original (buggy) perl and the September update (not buggy). I
would expect them to behave just like F8.
A fixed perl now gives no errors, the C5.2 original perl fails.
Given that these tests look for something that is specifically a
RH/Fedora issue, would it be unreasonable to look for specific
Fedora/RH information in determining the first test pass/fail?
Maybe - except I'd like to mop up any downstream distributions too, so
not *too* RH/Fedora specific :-)
Would you care to try the current trunk version (its merged now so the
branch is obsolete):-
http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk
or just grab the file itself (it only needs perl core modules to run):-
http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/svnweb/bast/view/DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/t/99rh_perl_perf_bug.t
[And, hey, there have been no changes to this for 4 hours now - thats
just about counting as stable]. More seriously we think that this is
usable now, although when the dev snapshot hits CPAN I won't be
suprised to find people with different opinions.
We now also work with 5.8.9 dev versions. The main thing I'd change
given copious spare time is removing the RH labelling from the test
code as its really testing for a 5.8.9 behavioural change that bless
affects references rather than the thing referred to.
Nigel.
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