Bug #95243 for Marpa-XS: Test suite fails for perls >= 5.19.3

Thu May 01 13:44:15 2014 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Test suite fails for perls >= 5.19.3

See http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Marpa-XS for an overview. Regards, Slaven

Thu May 01 15:01:12 2014 jkegl [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks for the report. Marpa::XS has been in "stable -- severe bug fix only" mode for some time. Marpa::R2 is the current version of Marpa. The intent behind leaving Marpa::XS on CPAN is to continue to support legacy users. New applications and users are recommended to look at Marpa::R2 instead. 5.18.0 made some changes incompatible with Marpa::XS, although these did not immediately cause tests to fail. I do not plan to support Marpa::XS for Perl's which are 5.18 or later. It is conceivable that a user wishes to be a legacy Marpa user, but also to run the very latest Perl. With regret, I've decided not to support Marpa::XS, which is a legacy release, for the latest releases of Perl. One consideration is that Marpa::XS has a complex development environment. (Since Marpa::XS, I've simplified it greatly, in particular removing the glib dependencies.) And the last time it was built was in a different environment than the one I now use. Any new relase, therefore, runs some risk of introducing bugs. The intent for Marpa::XS is to support legacy environments -- those who have running code and for which this change would have no value. I plan to leave this bug report open permanently, in order to document this situation. On Thu May 01 13:44:15 2014, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text

> See http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Marpa-XS for an overview. > > Regards, > Slaven

Thu May 01 15:01:12 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu May 01 15:01:41 2014 jkegl [...] cpan.org - Taken

Thu May 01 15:01:41 2014 jkegl [...] cpan.org - Severity Wishlist added

Sat Aug 30 04:24:09 2014 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Marpa-XS+1.008000 seems to work again for perl >= 5.20.0. So I assume this issue as resolved. On 2014-05-01 15:01:12, JKEGL wrote: Show quoted text

> Thanks for the report. Marpa::XS has been in "stable -- severe bug > fix only" mode for some time. Marpa::R2 is the current version of > Marpa. The intent behind leaving Marpa::XS on CPAN is to continue to > support legacy users. New applications and users are recommended to > look at Marpa::R2 instead. > > 5.18.0 made some changes incompatible with Marpa::XS, although these > did not immediately cause tests to fail. I do not plan to support > Marpa::XS for Perl's which are 5.18 or later. It is conceivable that > a user wishes to be a legacy Marpa user, but also to run the very > latest Perl. With regret, I've decided not to support Marpa::XS, > which is a legacy release, for the latest releases of Perl. > > One consideration is that Marpa::XS has a complex development > environment. (Since Marpa::XS, I've simplified it greatly, in > particular removing the glib dependencies.) And the last time it was > built was in a different environment than the one I now use. Any new > relase, therefore, runs some risk of introducing bugs. The intent for > Marpa::XS is to support legacy environments -- those who have running > code and for which this change would have no value. > > I plan to leave this bug report open permanently, in order to document > this situation. > > On Thu May 01 13:44:15 2014, SREZIC wrote:

> > See http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Marpa-XS for an overview. > > > > Regards, > > Slaven

Sat Aug 30 04:24:09 2014 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'