Matthew, It's been another two months. Let me renew my offer to get a minimal update out the door, just to fix this one problem. I can do it same-day once you give me permission, or ask the PAUSE admins to do so. I've cc'd them on this email so you could just reply.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 04:19, Matthew Astley wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > My apologies for the delay, it has been another three weeks. I'm > still here and starting to face the yaks as they present for shaving. > > One of them has to be Github's 2FA, which I had been avoiding. > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:14:22PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, at 17:50, Matthew Astley wrote: > > >> I've forgotten the specifics of coddling old Perls. v-strings [...] > > > My advice is to never use v-strings, but people have differing > > opinions. What did you have in mind to do? > > It has been such a long time that I cared about old Perl versions, > that I don't remember the horrors clearly. I remember 5.6.1 and 5.8.8 > being important milestones of sanity, and looking back from there to > the burdens of 5.004 . > > What I think is important for Perlunit is its support for moving a > tested codebase forward, from whatever archaic thing it has to at > least something more modern. That's an important part of the purpose > of a testing framework. > > > > I only use Test::Unit on v5.32 and newer, actually! > > OK. Maybe the answer is to point to 0.25 as being a milestone among > Perl versions. > > > [...] > > > Still it troubles me that other codebases are loitering quietly > > > somewhere, and some poor sod has to use this to keep them going. > > > > You know, my advice is that you should not feel badly about this. > > You produced something, and people got to use it for free. [...] > > Thank you for that, it does help. > > > > > How about (tomorrow) I will > > > > > > 1. start with a fresh clone of https://github.com/mcast/perlunit > > > > > > 2. use /usr/bin/perl which is v5.34.0 > > > > > > 3. see how it builds, then have a think. > > > > > > 4. give you COMAINT on it. Is that the right thing? I forgot how all > > > that works but I'm sure I can give it a Ducking. > > > > This all sounds good. > > So I did all that. Then I started looking at the two distros' > patches, one of which I can't find the source repo for. > > It makes sense to use their work, but that brings the obligation to > credit them. They haven't made that so easy, from where I'm sitting, > but then I didn't make it so easy for them either. 8-) > > > OK at least I'm moving again. Keep well, > > Matthew >
