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Changes for version 1.17 - 2008-12-19

  • TEST: Tests to ensure that passing undefined values to systemx() do not produce malformed errors, but instead well-formed errors. Many thanks to Nadim Khemir for spotting this. RT #41149.
  • BUGFIX: Workaround for a bug under Perl 5.10 where on some platforms coredumps were not being reported in $?. Many thanks to the Debian Perl folks for finding this, particularly Gregor Herrmann.
  • TEST: Better diagnostics from t/08_core.t.
  • TEST: t/08_core.t now cleans up its core files after running. Thanks to Gregor Herrmann for spotting this.
  • TEST: t/08_core.t is now a main test, rather than an author-only test.
  • BUGFIX: Attempting to call an undefined command is now a fatal error.
  • VERSION: Since ISS is now very stable, and provides a significantly improved interface to the default system() command, the major version number has been incremented.
    • There are no incompatible changes with previous version. The increment of the major version number is to indicate stability only.

Modules

Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics