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NAME

ReleaseNotes - These are the Release Notes for 1.16_20

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 (mandatory) 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 perlcurrent.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.

  9. All the backends now have a front end script (synctree.pl, patchtree.pl, mailrpt.pl and W32Configure.pl

  10. There now is a --smartsmoke option that will exit after the SYNCTREE step if the the patchlevel is the same as before.

  11. Some hacks are in place to support the smoking of perl-5.6.2 to be, as it doesn't need the extended PerlIO testing we use for 5.8+.

  12. To configure Test::Smoke for smoking perl-5.6.x(MAINT):

    $ perl configsmoke.pl -p smoke56x

    To configre Test::Smoke for smoking perl-5.8.x(MAINT):

    $ perl configsmoke.pl -p smoke58x

TODO

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

make install needs to be sorted out!
Start an FAQ
crontab/at stuff for configsmoke.pl
More refactoring
Clean up/extend the testsuite

COPYRIGHT

(c) 2002-2003, 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.

See:

  • http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

    item * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.