> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Stefan Eissing <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Montag, 23. April 2018 17:08 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: A proposal... > > Such undocumented and untested behaviour, which nevertheless is > considered a regression, cannot be avoided, since it cannot be > anticipated by people currently working on those code parts. This is a > legacy of the past, it seems, which we can only overcome by breakage and > resulting, added test cases. > > > In other words: nothing backported unless it also involves some > changes to the Perl test framework or some pretty convincing reasons why > it's not required. > > See above, this will not fix the unforeseeable breakage that results > from use cases unknown and untested. >
Agreed. Even if do perfect testing for all new stuff it will take time until we see positive results as the past will hurt us here for a while. So we shouldn't give up too fast if do not see positive results immediately 😊 Regards Rüdiger
