I've found some bugs in Data::Compare, and would like to take over maintenance of the module so I can fix 'em. I have a patched version ready to go just as soon as I am allowed to upload it. I will, of course, be happy to hand maintenance back to the original author if he ever shows up again.
The original author has not responded to email for a couple of months now. Nor has he responded when I posted in comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.modules asking for him to contact me. And when I posted to his local perl mongers mailing list, someone there told me that he'd forwarded my message on to him - but no response. The bugs are: Inappropriate use of /o on a pattern match which has an interpolated variable in it, and which should be reinterpolated each time; Breaks when data structures contain Scalar::Properties objects Also someone else has mentioned a potential bug with how it handles references to references to (scalars|arrays|hashes) although I haven't confirmed this myself, I just told him "patches welcome". -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Despite all its complexity, fuzziness, uncertainty and spooky action- at-a-distance, quantum mechanics is probably a Good Thing. However, I must also note that QM permits Microsoft Windows to exist -- John Walker
