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.

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