Re: maint-5.10-1196-ga8a43ff on VMS status

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 04:38:15PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> With everything default except -Duseithreads, I see:
>>
>> Failed 6 tests out of 1564, 99.62% okay.
>>       [-.lib.CPANPLUS.Dist.Build.t]02_CPANPLUS-Dist-Build.t
>>       [-.lib.CPANPLUS.t]19_CPANPLUS-Dist.t
>>       [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]basic.t
>>       [-.lib.Module.Build.t]compat.t
>>       [-.lib.Module.Build.t]ext.t
>>       op/magic.t
>>
>> Here's what I know about what fixes these.
>>
>>
>>       [-.lib.CPANPLUS.Dist.Build.t]02_CPANPLUS-Dist-Build.t
>>       [-.lib.CPANPLUS.t]19_CPANPLUS-Dist.t
>>
>> These require the integration of  
>> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/41cb7b2> from blead plus 

done

>> the patch to IPC::Cmd at  
>> <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=46288> being rolled into 
>> a release and working its way downstream.
>>
>>
>>       [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]basic.t
>>
>> This is fixed in EU::MM 6.51_03, though that has a couple of new and  
>> different failures that will hopefully be sorted out shortly.

are they fixed in 6.51_04?

>> These are resolved in the M::B development stream (specifically at  
>> <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42724>) but await  
>> percolation through a release, blead, and thus to maint.  Should we go  
>> ahead and put a development snapshot of M::B into blead?

I think its better to encourage the author to make a new release on CPAN
(possibly a development release).

>>       op/magic.t
>>
>> Minor collateral damage from converting the test to t/test.pl, fixed in 
>> blead at <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae8ade6>.

now in maint too.

> magic.t in my tests is leaving behind a logical name named "foo" which  
> is causing failures in the CPANPLUS tests as it prevents access to a  
> directory named foo that they use.

I see that's fixed in blead now, and merged into maint.

> I think that some of my patches to allow the ExtUtils modules to work  
> with the Extended Character sets on ODS-5 volumes and the UNIX report  
> modes have not yet made it into the CPAN versions.

Do you have a list (eg module names and RT IDs?)

PS - thanks guys!

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