On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:40:59AM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote: > Well, assuming you can actually build them, I find it just as easy to test > modules with *all* official Perl releases. That's what I've been doing with > my modules for years.
Its bad enough having to work around bugs in 5.5.4 that have been fixed in later Perls. Do I also want to work around bugs in 5.5.2 that have been fixed in 5.5.4 just because someone can't be arsed to do a minor upgrade? Not particularly. A glimpse of this sort of thing can be had in all the threads bug work arounds inside Test::Builder (a module which doesn't even use threads!) to deal with 5.8.0 bugs. I'm sure XS authors have a similarly hard time. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
