Re^2: What is involved in being a cpan tester?

What the Perl community is looking for from you is to provide hardware, the more unusual the better

It seems that currently, all CPAN testers are using perl 5.8 and no reports are being generated for older versions, specially 5.6 that is still widely used. In my opinion, that would be a very interesting target also.

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Re^3: What is involved in being a cpan tester? by rinceWind (Monsignor) on May 30, 2006 at 08:19 UTC
You are right of course. I for one would welcome tests against 5.6.1, as politically, this is the perl version I am using at work. I don't think there's any mileage in going to an earlier version than 5.6.1, as 5.6.0 was seriously broken and earlier versions lack functionality (`our`, lexical filehandles). I also doubt if CPANPLUS would work under such earlier versions. -- Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree. Your powers of persuasion will set them all free, So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? (Missquoting Janis Joplin)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: What is involved in being a cpan tester?
by rinceWind (Monsignor) on May 30, 2006 at 08:19 UTC

You are right of course. I for one would welcome tests against 5.6.1, as politically, this is the perl version I am using at work. I don't think there's any mileage in going to an earlier version than 5.6.1, as 5.6.0 was seriously broken and earlier versions lack functionality (our, lexical filehandles). I also doubt if CPANPLUS would work under such earlier versions.

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Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ?
My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree.
Your powers of persuasion will set them all free,
So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ?
(Missquoting Janis Joplin)

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