Re: Put pass/fail/incomplete in the subject line

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern)
Newsgroups perl.daily-build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:09:13PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > Those have been appearing and reappearing for months now.  I have no idea
> > what's causing them, but it's not a bug in those modules, they just happen
> > to be exercising the bug.  I don't know if the strings actually have the
> > wrong line-ending style on them or if the $ regex is mismatching.  Beyond
> > that, I don't know how to diagnose it.
> 
> A new (temporary/local) flag that will
> 
> 	s/[\r\n]+/\n/g
> 
> on both strings before comparing?
> 
> I agree that this is not a good /solution/, but we know that these tests will
> pass in normal conditions, and if we do nothing about it, we will never get
> any 'O's from smoke on cygwin again.

Better to wrap it in a TODO test.  The bug seems to appear and disappear and
it would be nice if we knew what caused it to do that.


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