Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Expect 1.30 - change in behavior

[Bryan B. <br...@bu...>]

Gabor,

Hello, I am the author of rover (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rover/) a
tool that uses Expect.  I have done some testing and my latest CVS code
works just fine with the new 1.30.

However I do have some comments:

ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.70 is required but the only new feature I see needed
is the TEST_REQUIRES parameter.  This was introduced in 6.63.  I tested
6.64 and it builds the Makefile without issue and installs Expect
successfully.

Using an older MakeMaker will help make this build-able on many platforms.
 Some MM versions on various systems I support are:

  Ubuntu 8.04  = 6.30
  Ubuntu 12.04 = 6.57
  Ubuntu 14.04 = 6.72
  RedHat ES 5  = 6.30
  RedHat ES 6  = 6.55
  CentOS 6     = 6.55 (clone of RedHat)
  AIX 5.3      = 6.30
  AIX 6.1      = 6.55
  AIX 7.1      = 6.63


Also when making Expect, warnings were thrown for IO::Pty v1.11 not being
installed but i was able to continue.  Expect fails to load without 1.11
however.  I recommend setting PREREQ_FATAL to true in order to avoid this
behavior.

Finally, it seems that installing Expect on ubuntu somehow removed
IO::Stty?  I need to test this more to validate.  It did not remove it on
CentOS when i installed so this may be on my end.

Thanks.


Bryan Bueter
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rover/