[Soaplite-devel] SOAP::Lite development - next release

[Martin K. <mar...@fe...>]

Hi there,

the good news first: I think it's already time for a new release. It's
mainly a bugfix release, but I think it would be nice to show the world
SOAP::Lite's still alive.
Changes so far are:

(+ means new feature, ! means bugfix, # are CPAN RT issues, [ 123456 ]
SF.net bugs ):

  + Added LOOPBACK test transport backend.
  + Added more core tests
  ! Fixed #14052: 'use base' pragma no longer works for SOAP::Lite
  ! Fixed #27032: Some debugging-aid patches
  ! Fixed #22732: Documentation error for use_prefix()
  ! Fixed [ 1044270 ] Suppress type for array when autotyping off
  ! Fixed [ 1665916 ] encode_scalar needs "no strict 'refs'"?
  ! Fixed [ 1481017 ] Typo on CPAN's documentation
  ! Fixed [ 1750846 ] Error with ENV{EXPECT}
  ! Fixed [ 887015 ] Memory Leak
  ! Fixed [ 1700326 ] encode_data called incorrectly in envelope
  ! Fixed [ 1612405 ] Incorrect deserialization of arrays/vectors
  ! Fixed [ 1204279 ] Boolean serialization error and added test
  ! Fixed [ 1569418 ] anyURI Serialization problem

The bad news are: The extended test suite does not work (or better: does
not seem to produce usable results). 
Without further investigation, it looks just like most of the web
services accessed as test have closed down in the meantime or don't
return the expected result (for example, the ActiveState WS returns
something (a empty search response), but not the data expected.

Has someone here tried the extended test suite lately? Any hints?

If there's only similar experience, I'd just remove the "real world"
SOAP tests, add one or to I know working and wrap everything up.

Are there any places besides CPAN and sourceforge to put releases onto?

Thanks for your help,

Martin