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Hi there, On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, demerphq wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 12:19, G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Dave Cross wrote: >>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 10:56, G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I'm the maintainer of exactly one CPAN module, but since it's used by >>>> both Sendmail and Postfix users I'm very keen to keep it working. It >>>> would help me greatly in this effort if for example a row or two could >>>> be added to this table: >>>> >>>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Sendmail%3A%3APMilter >>>> >>>> to show development versions of Perl ... >>> >>> The top seven rows on that page already show the most recent development >>> versions of Perl. So I'm not really sure what more information you're >>> asking for. >> >> Sorry, maybe I misunderstand. > > I think you did. That tables lists released versions. Such tables would not > list every patch in blead. > >> Is one of those what you'd call 'blead'? > > No. In that case I don't I misunderstood - I think you did. But that's probably because I'm unfamiliar with the terminology and don't know how to express my ideas so people on this list can understand them. > You would need to build perl from a checkout of the repo at > https://github.com/Perl/perl5 My point exactly. And in my case, because of my pathological aversion to github (and github's aversion to my browser), I simply won't do it. > That wasn't my point however, my point was it would be helpful if folks > could take the time to build perl against the latest commit in the blead > branch on github and then test it against their favourite modules. If > anything doesn't build, file a patch with the author of the module and or > maybe with us as an issue. That's incredibly onerous. Can't you just get the patched version(s) of Perl into cpan-testers and get everything tested automatically by the next morning, together with a nice page of idiot lights which show Where Things Failed? -- 73, Ged.Thread Previous | Thread Next