Re: File::Copy, autodie, VMS (was Re: maint-5.10-1531-ga5f97a6 on VMS status)

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:03:21AM +1000, Paul Fenwick wrote:
> However, it should be noted that the skip-list explicitly tests for 5.10.0
> and earlier.  My assumption is that this will be fixed in 5.10.1 because the
> fix is *so* simple, and it's already in blead.  From 079cb8cc:

I don't want to put this fix into into 5.10.1, because:

1) there's a whole slew of File::Copy changes that I've avoided pulling
into maint, and version nunbering gets complicated

2) its a simple fix, but it changes the behaviour of the function, and its
not really something I want to be doing a couple of weeks before release.

> If for any reason we don't go with the fix which is currently in blead, then
> I think we should consider fixing the docs so that rather than File::Copy
> saying it returns zero, it instead says that it returns false.

I intend to reconsider File::Copy post 5.10.1 release.

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