What is your goal?

It'd be nice if PerlIO-Layers could be fixed so that it passes all tests on perl-5.10.0. (It's a dependency for File::Map which, in turn will be a dependency for the next stable release of PDL.)
The author of the module is stumped, and I don't have much of an idea (and not much time at the moment, either).

I don't know much about the performance of the earlier versions of PerlIO-Layers on windows (I think they might have issues), but 0.009 and 0.010 are fine for me on a wide range of perl versions from 5.8.9 to 5.15.9, and using a variety of compilers including gcc-4.5.2 (32-bit), gcc-4.7.0 (64-bit), MSVC++ 7.0 (32-bit), and MS Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 (64-bit).

It seems odd that there should be failures for only 5.10.0 - and I thought someone here might have some ideas as to why that happens.
But it's not mission-critical - more a request to anyone that's interested, rather than an urgent plea for help.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: [Win32] PerlIO-Layers fails 4 tests on perl-5.10 only by syphilis
in thread [Win32] PerlIO-Layers fails 4 tests on perl-5.10 only by syphilis

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