I have to wonder about the need for the ability to change the names

Well, I have two sets in my smoke directory, one for "maint" (Aka Perl 5.8.x) and one for "current" (Aka Perl 5.9.x). You didnt run perldoc yet did you? :-)

The problem is that the test suite makes several calls to system functions that cause my firewall to intervene with popups requesting authorisation.

Personally I'd just tell your firewall to ignore anything in the smoke tree. Alternatively just let the tests fail i guess. If anybody wants to know why they will ask.

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

In reply to Re^16: 5.10 imminent? by demerphq
in thread 5.10 imminent? by BrowserUk

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