pre-merge testing on I/O branch

[Moritz Lenz]

Allison Randal wrote:
> As of r33639, all core tests are passing in the pdd22io_part2 branch on 
> the platforms I have access to (Intel Mac 10.5.5, Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit).

Confirmed on 64bit i386 Debian "Lenny" (aka testing).

> This branch takes the new I/O system that was merged into trunk a few 
> weeks ago, and makes it the default, replacing the old I/O system.
> 
> I would appreciate any platform or language testing, and will merge in 
> the branch tomorrow if I hear no reports, hear all positive reports, or 
> manage to fix any reported problems. I see some failures in Rakudo's 
> 'make spectest', will check to see if they're related.

'make spectest' in trunk is mostly clean, except for a backtrace in
declaration-order.t after all tests have run.

Cheers,
Moritz