From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 08:01:37 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Remove notes about -v from perltodo X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=87dd31c8809837f26b4fbbd9d8b99ccdc65e6deb;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Remove notes about -v from perltodo --- diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 00effc3..ee35bf6 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -439,28 +439,6 @@ is currently no guarantee that passing no use64bitall option to the Configure process will build a 32bit perl. Implementing -Duse32bit* options would be nice for perl 5.12. -=head2 Make it clear from -v if this is the exact official release - -Currently perl from C/C ships with a F file that -usually defines one local patch, of the form "MAINT12345" or "RC1". The output -of perl -v doesn't report that a perl isn't an official release, and this -information can get lost in bugs reports. Because of this, the minor version -isn't bumped up until RC time, to minimise the possibility of versions of perl -escaping that believe themselves to be newer than they actually are. - -It would be useful to find an elegant way to have the "this is an interim -maintenance release" or "this is a release candidate" in the terse -v output, -and have it so that it's easy for the pumpking to remove this just as the -release tarball is rolled up. This way the version pulled out of rsync would -always say "I'm a development release" and it would be safe to bump the -reported minor version as soon as a release ships, which would aid perl -developers. - -This task is really about thinking of an elegant way to arrange the C source -such that it's trivial for the Pumpking to flag "this is an official release" -when making a tarball, yet leave the default source saying "I'm not the -official release". - =head2 Profile Perl - am I hot or not? The Perl source code is stable enough that it makes sense to profile it,