This MakeMaker release has several totally avoidable bugs. The most odious of
which is that it won't pass tests on a clean 5.8.8. This was present in
6.51_03 and 6.51_04. Nobody caught it. It also clearly fails on VMS, again
present in several alphas. On top of that it busts building bleadperl on
Windows and VMS. Now I need to spend the weekend fixing these bugs.
Clearly its past time I got an automated smoke server. MakeMaker and
Test::More both need build bots that can pull from git, smoke servers of
various interesting OS' and a Smolder instance to send the results to.
I have a full time job now so my time to work on all this is limited, and I've
got a week and a half before a block of speaking engagements kicks off. And I
just wasted tonight unexpectedly rewriting my DSL. If someone could do this,
set up smoke bots [1] and smolder system running off the github repositories,
that would be a huge help!
[1] Keep it simple, it ideally has to work on Unix, Windows and VMS.
--
<Schwern> What we learned was if you get confused, grab someone and swing
them around a few times
-- Life's lessons from square dancing
