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Source   Latest Release: perl-5.18.2-RC2   perltodo - Perl TO-DO
List       Tasks that only need Perl knowledge ^  Improve
Porting/ to work from git tags  See
Porting/release_managers_guide.pod for a bit more detail.
Migrate t/ from custom TAP generation    Test that was run
There are various generated files shipped with the perl
distribution, for things like header files generate from data.
The generation scripts are written in perl, and all can be run
by However, because they're written in perl, we can't run them
before we've built perl. We can't run them as part of the
Makefile, because changing files underneath make confuses it
completely, and we don't want to run them automatically anyway,
as they change files shipped by the distribution, something we
seek not do to.  If someone changes the data, but forgets to re-
run then the generated files are out of sync. It would be good
to have a test in t/porting that checks that the generated files
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