[Templates] Template Toolkit v2.19 pre-release - looking for testers (Win32 in particular)

[Stuart Johnston]

I don't use Perl on Windows for anything useful but, all tests pass on=20
my system with:

cygwin perl 5.8.7 (no XS)
Strawberry Perl 5.8.8 Alpha 2 (with XS)


Andy Wardley wrote:
> There's a pre-release of TT2 v2.19 here:
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>   http://tt2.org/download/Template-Toolkit-2.19.tar.gz
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> I've tested it on OSX and Debian, but I can't coak my aged Windows
> 2000 installation into running anything remotely Perl-like these
> days without installing a bunch of updates.
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> Given that this release includes a fix for the t/fileline.t bug on
> Win32, I'd really appreciate it if someone with access to a Windows
> box could check it out and give me the all-clear on the "make test"
> front before I upload it to CPAN.
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> I realise there may be some outstanding patches/updates that haven't
> made it in.  But I wanted to get a version release with the high
> priority issues fixed.
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> If there is anything that I've missed, or any outstanding issues
> that I haven't addressed, then please let me know (on the list
> or otherwise) and I'll look them over next week and make another
> release if necessary.
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> List of changes follows.
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> Cheers
> A
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> #----------------------------------------------------------------------=
--
> # Version 2.19 - 27th April 2007
> #----------------------------------------------------------------------=
--
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> * Applied a patch to t/fileline.t from Steffen M=FCller which fixes the
>   problems running on Win32 with backslashes in paths.
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>   https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3D20488
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> * Applied a patch to the XS Stash from Randy Kobes which fixes some oth=
er
>   Win32 problems.
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>   http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2007-February/009247.html
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> * Applied another patch to the XS Stash from Steve Peters which fixes
>   a problem with tied hashes under more recent version of Perl.
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>   http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2007-January/009181.html
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> * Fixed a problem in the Perl Stash when using objects that have
>   overloaded comparison operators.  Thanks to Randal Schwartz, Tatsuhik=
o
>   Miyagawa and Daisuke Maki for their contributions.
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>   http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2007-March/009265.html
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> * Applied a patch from Bill Moseley to Template::Provider which adds
>   negative caching and moves some functionality into separate methods
>   to make subclassing easier.  Also added the STAT_TTL configuration
>   parameter.
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>   http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2007-January/009183.html
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> * Added the url filter as a less aggressive form of the uri filter.
>   Whereas the uri filter now (from v2.16 onwards) encodes all the
>   reserved characters (@, :, /, etc.) as per RFC2396, the url filter
>   leaves them intact and thus behaves just like the uri filter used
>   to.
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>   http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2007-March/009277.html
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