On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 02:13:00PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 19:26 +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > > Presumably CPAN testing of a blead perl with smartmatch removed/deprecated > > could pick that up pretty quickly. > > Automated CPAN testing occurs on new releases of modules only doesn't it > or is there comprehensive testing of every current release on CPAN when > a new perl is being prepared for release?
For several years now Andreas König has been smoking existing CPAN modules using development versions of perl. He's found (and we've fixed) a lot of problems before anyone ever realised that they existed. Nicholas Clark