bug fix for absent author of

2020-03-21 Thread L A Walsh
I was trying to use something that had Text::Quote as a dependency. It has a bug in its test involving a string compare on floating point values (for 2/3) that generates different output on machines with different # bits for floating point. The bug was filed 6 years ago and is still in New state.

Re: bug fix for absent author of Text::Quote

2020-03-21 Thread L. A. Walsh
well, it's not like anyone should be confused about what module if they looked at the patch or zip, but thought I'd make a reply with the module name in the Subject.

Re: bug fix for absent author of

2020-03-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi L, > I was trying to use something that had Text::Quote as a dependency. > It has a bug in its test involving a string compare on floating > point values (for 2/3) that generates different output on machines > with different # bits for floating point. > > The bug was filed 6 years ago and is s

Re: bug fix for absent author of

2020-03-21 Thread Reini Urban
Neil Bowers schrieb am Sa., 21. März 2020, 21:20: > Hi L, > > > I was trying to use something that had Text::Quote as a dependency. > > It has a bug in its test involving a string compare on floating > > point values (for 2/3) that generates different output on machines > > with different # bits

Re: bug fix for absent author of

2020-03-21 Thread Neil Bowers
> Neil, it's you, not Yves. I know.

Re: bug fix for absent author of

2020-03-21 Thread L. Walsh
On 2020/03/21 13:20, Neil Bowers wrote: A good approach is to reply on RT, and include your patch in RT. The first thing I did was search for issues there. When I saw that it hadn't been responded to or acknowledged in 6 years, I didn't think adding my 'me too' case (even with a trivial fix) wo