On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:10:06PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:44:32PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > Any patches to modules from libnet, and test additions, should be > > against the latest libnet on CPAN, I do not want the core to diverge. > > I can understand this. We should be patching the CPAN libnet. > > > > So if a test depends on a module in the core it should check that > > the module is avaliable, so that the test is skipped with older > > perl releases. > > But this is a little funny. How are these new tests going to wind up > on old perl and libnet versions?
Because the new tests should be added to libnet, not the core. And libnet runs on older versions Graham.