Re: [Module::Build] Moving to perforce?

[Nicholas C. <ni...@cc...>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:46:55PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:

> But another thing is that everyone I talk to who's used it seems to 
> like it, which is probably worth a lot.

It is nice.
The two things I know that it can't do are

1: If you create a file as part of one submit, and then change it as part of
   a subsequent submit, you can't integrate both "changes" onto another
   branch as part of a single submit. I've been bitten by this twice in the
   past 3 months - it's a strange deficiency.

2: You can't back out an integration. There's a FAQ item about how to do it -
   ie kludge it. (p4 edit the relevant files, get the (forwards) diff,
   patch -R, submit)
   This sucks, because it's as if you did a local edit in that branch, which
   means you can't (re)integrate the change, and any subsequent changes to
   that area of code will become conflicts between the two branches.

Obviously these two are irritating if you're trying to merge changes over
from perl 5.9.x to perl 5.8.x

Nicholas Clark