[PREP] Last Rounds for Parrot 0.9.1

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Andy Dougherty <doughera at lafayette.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Mark Glines wrote:
>
>> kjstol wrote:
>> > If you have any:
>> > * critical bug fixes
>> > * updates
>> > * stuff to be deprecated and removed before 1.0
>> > * anything else you'd like to get in 0.9.1
>> >
>> > please commit/add this before tomorrow.
>>
>> Got a couple of TODO tests passing (pbc integer/number), but otherwise,
>> test and codetest look good on linux/x86-64 in r36806.
>
> I think the t/native_pbc/*.t tests should all be SKIPPED for the release.
> They dump core on 64-bit systems and "Unexpectedly pass" on some other
> systems.  They aren't telling us anything useful.

I agree with this, these tests are failure prone and aren't serving a
useful purpose right now, at least not until the PBC system settles
down a little bit. Let's skip these now and focus on getting a more
robust PBC system and associated tests for 1.0.

--Andrew Whitworth