On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:12:04PM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2026-01-14 12:40:21 -0800, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > IPC::Run is now at 20250809.0 for Debian and the BSDs in our CI.
> > (Strawberry Perl on Windows still lags.) I see the cfbot is starting
> > to make use of the new images.
>
> Thanks a lot for working on that! The noise due to the old IPC::Run has been
> very annoying...
>
> Noah, do you know if upgrading on windows would fix any issues? Unfortunately
The latest version detects child process exit faster on Windows. It doesn't
affect whether a test passes, but tests may finish faster.
> the recipe we used for all the other platforms probably won't quite work on
> windows (although it's possible we could use the mingw install to build the
> IPC::Run for the perl install used by the msvc build).
I'd just unpack the tarball and add $PWD/IPC-Run/lib to the PERL5LIB envar.
