On 21/04/2022 22:00, James E Keenan wrote:
As of perl-5.35.11, perl offers a configuration option,
'-Utaint_support', which enables a user to build a perl executable
without taint support. Neil Bowers contacted me with a pull request for
a CPAN distribution that I co-maintain, IPC-System-Simple
(https://github.com/pjf/ipc-system-simple/pull/39). The purpose of the
p.r. was to enable certain test files to PASS if the user attempted to
install this distro against a "no-taint perl."
Yes. I will do so, as I have a module which relies on taint.
> I myself don't do fully automated CPANtesting of the kind that
> Andreas, Slaven, Bingos, Carlos and others so unflaggingly do. So I
> don't know how much of a human and electronic work burden this might
> be. I'm posting here to initiate a discussion.
I already test against a build of blead which I update from git roughly
weekly. It would be trivial to update the script that rebuilds it to
spit out two slightly different builds, so I'll do that this weekend.
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David Cantrell
