NAME

ReleaseNotes - These are the Release Notes for 1.16_15

SYNOPSIS

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT! (Sorry about the shouting, but it may have bugs or be incomplete)

DESCRIPTION

I have done a lot of refactoring and wrote loads of new code.

1. smokeperl.pl is the new way to smoke. It is a wrapper script around good ol' mktest.pl and mkovz.pl

   It also uses the backends to synctree.pl and mailrpt.pl

2. configsmoke.pl helps you create a configuration for perlsmoke.pl. This configuration is stored in a separate file, so that it is possible to have different configurations.

   One can think of different perl versions or different compiler versions.

3. New ways to sync the source-tree (see synctree.pl and Test::Smoke::Syncer).

4. Distribution now contains Mail::Sendmail (esp. for Win32)

5. -Uuseperlio will now only do one (1) testrun and it's back in smoke.cfg

6. An implementation of Nick Clark's 'Hardlink Forest', with the extra --forest <directory> option to mktest.pl. This will change the way to make distclean to another (hopefully faster).

7. The subject of the message containing the report has changed:

   Smoke [perlversion] <patch> <summary> <os> - <osvers> (<arch>/<cpus>)

8. If your platform supports UTF-8 locales you will now be able to do an extra run of make test with $ENV{LC_ALL} set to such a locale.

TODO

I don't know if all of this will make it into 1.17...

Start an FAQ

MSVCxx detection for configsmoke.pl

crontab/at stuff for configsmoke.pl

More refactoring

Clean up/extend the testsuite

COPYRIGHT

(c) 2002, All rights reserved.

* Abe Timmerman <abeltje@cpan.org>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.