Older Archive Zip: request for testing

[Rabellino Sergio]

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David Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, David Lee wrote:
>
>
>>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Robin, Rob wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>        BSDi 4.2 (planned to migrate to linux soon), Perl 5.005_03.
>>>        For the Archive-Zip1.12, my compilation always failed at
>>>
>>>----
>>>t/testUpdate........Use of uninitialized value at /usr/libdata/perl5/5.00503/Test.pm line 68.
>>>Use of uninitialized value at /usr/libdata/perl5/5.00503/Test.pm line 68.
>>>Use of uninitialized value at /usr/libdata/perl5/5.00503/Test.pm line 68.
>>>Use of uninitialized value at /usr/libdata/perl5/5.00503/Test.pm line 68.
>>>ok
>>>t/testex............Can't call method "print" on unblessed reference at blib/lib/Archive/Zip.pm line 1862.
>>>FAILED test 14
>>>        Failed 1/15 tests, 93.33% okay
>>>----
>>
>>Sorry for the delay in replying (holiday; just back today).
>>
>>[...]
>>Now that I'm back, I'll try to chase it up, and report back.
>
>
> This is a known bug in version 1.12 of Archive::Zip, which crept in since
> earlier versions and which we think only affects relatively old versions
> of perl, around 5.00503 .  About three weeks ago, I worked with A::Z's
> author, Ned Konz, to fix it.  He prepared a test version (1.12_03) which
> seems OK and he would like to release it as 1.13 (or similar).
>
> But now we are left with the usual chicken-and-egg problem of testing.
> This includes, of course, bugs in the "has the fix for one bug introduced
> new bugs for others?" category.
>
> Any volunteers here, please?
>
> We're looking for a cross-section of OSes and of perl versions.  You
> needn't be expert (I'm not!) but you ought to be self-supporting to the
> extent that (as shouldn't happen) something goes wrong, you could dig
> yourself out of the hole (e.g. reinstate your previous A::Z).
>
> 1.12 is on CPAN (also www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/Archive-Zip-1.12.tar.gz).
> It should work on everything, EXCEPT perl 5.00503 (or thereabouts) where
> it should fail one of the t/testex tests (as in Rob Robin's email above).
>
.... TESTED ok
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for sun4-solaris

Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /opt/perl/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/test..............ok
t/testex............ok
t/testMemberRead....ok
t/testTree..........ok
t/testUpdate........ok
All tests successful.
Files=5, Tests=163,  5 wallclock secs ( 4.21 cusr +  1.08 csys =  5.29 CPU)

> 1.12_03 is at www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/Archive-Zip-1.12_03.tar.gz .  That
> really should work on everything.  (I've been running a fractionally
> earlier version for nearly three weeks handing 1million emails/week.)
>
This download is 0 bytes, could you check the tar.gz ?
>
> Please report back your findings to me, mentioning OS and perl version.
> I'll collate them for Ned Konz.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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