From: Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD perl 5.38.2 - Call for Testing
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:05:18 -0700

On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 11:30:47AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024/04/04 20:36, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote:
> > Got some successful build logs from folks and finally got my home lab
> > working well enough to run tests on several other machines, all
> > successfully (although my Edgerouter Lite disk is amazingly slow).
> > 
> > Plus I have built a bunch of ports on a machine running it with no
> > issues.
> > 
> > sthen@: When would be a good time to import?
> 
> I don't think a ports bulk build has been done with this. Assuming not:
> are you reasonably confident that it won't cause much breakage?

It has not, I wouldn't say no to a volunteer to do that, I don't have
the infrastructure to do one.
(ok, I don't have the infrastructure set up)

I don't think it should cause too many issues, as the list of
incompatible changes seems pretty safe and I haven't seen any issues in
my limited testing.

https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/view/pod/perl5380delta.pod#Incompatible-Changes

> Depending on the answer to that, either it wants to land in the next day
> or two, or wait until after p2k24, we want to have a usable mixture of
> base and package snapshots.

I would though hate to cause problems for folks at a hackathon though,
so perhaps getting a bulk done and committing after that is complete is
the best choice.  I've been slacking on this long enough that a bit
longer won't hurt.