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@Corion Corion commented Dec 28, 2025

This is to make the step of comparing two installed versions of Perl a bit easier and less dependent on (POSIX) shell tools, at the price of installing Algorithm::Diff.

Usage:

perl Porting/directory-diff.pl -l 's/5.43.6/5.43.7/g' /tmp/perl-5.43.6 /tmp/perl-5.43.7

The patch also adds a paragraph to the Release Managers Guide on installing the additional module(s), currently only Algorithm::Diff .


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@Corion Corion force-pushed the rmg-directory-diff branch from 691ca37 to a904bf0 Compare December 28, 2025 19:37
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jkeenan commented Jan 15, 2026

@Corion, this pull request has a number of porting test failures which should be fixed before we undertake a full discussion. Can you fix?

@jkeenan jkeenan added the Infrastructure Things needed to maintain Perl development label Jan 15, 2026
@Corion Corion force-pushed the rmg-directory-diff branch from 730a64a to 5a68022 Compare January 15, 2026 20:39
This is to make the step of comparing two installed versions of Perl
a bit easier and less dependent on (POSIX) shell tools, at the price
of installing Algorithm::Diff.

Usage:

  perl Porting/directory-diff.pl -l 's/5.43.6/5.43.7/g' /tmp/perl-5.43.6 /tmp/perl-5.43.7
@Corion Corion force-pushed the rmg-directory-diff branch from 5a68022 to 1fe042c Compare January 15, 2026 20:40
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Corion commented Jan 15, 2026

Whoops! The above force-pushes address the failing tests (that I did not run, I admit)

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