Re: [PATCH] testsuite quick fixes

[email protected] (John Porter) Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:00:32 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups perl.perl1.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andy Dougherty wrote:
> . . .
> Alas, the metaconfig used to generate perl is maintained in the
> perforce repository. 
> I'm currently checking those units out and revising some of the
> instructions to hand back to Hugo for 5.9.0.  When that's done, I
> can also make those units available if people would be interested.
> ...

/me dons Software Engineer cap.

I suggest that someone (preferrably, but not necessarily, the
pumpking) maintain an engineering notebook (blog) in which to
record all the things that it took to bring perl1 to the goal
state.  I would think this knowledge could be useful for 
other projects of a similar nature.  E.g. the metaconfig mods
would be *very* interesting.

-- 
JohnDouglasPorter



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