Jonathan Yu wrote: > Hi: > > I seek the wisdom of any other module authors that might have come > across this problem. > > Recently, I uploaded a new version of Math::Random::ISAAC::XS and ran > into a *lot* of regressions. I've looked at the diff and I didn't > really change all that much, except for removing some things from > Recommends. The smokers nonetheless output something that I can't > reproduce, and I'm not sure if it has to do with my use of the > 'version' pragma, or if the systems in question are using an older > version than I test with. > > In at least one report, the version seems to be recent, so I'm not > sure if it's a new issue: version 0 0.76_06 > > I get plenty of failing tests: > http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/M/Math-Random-ISAAC-XS.html#Math-Random-ISAAC-XS-1.0.6 > > Here is the diff between my last (100% PASS) version, 1.05, and the > latest version, which has a lot more failures than I'd like: > http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Math-Random-ISAAC-XS-1.0.5&to=Math-Random-ISAAC-XS-1.0.6 > > Any insight that the module-authors can provide would be greatly > appreciated. Does this have to do with the latest version pragma? > Maybe I should also agree that it's considered a Bad Thing and move to > using the older, more Perlish version numbers :( > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > >
I think a new version of version.pm was made available a few days ago by David Golden (0.77). You fails results seem to mention if (0.77). Perhaps this is the cause. I've cc'ed David just in case (apologies if I'm off the mark on this David). Martin
