Alien 5.99 is released. A full rewrite done in just 30 hours, not too bad. I hate MakeMaker. If it were just a little bit less arcane, that would be 24 hours..

Alien needs lots of testing. I really wish I had a proper regession test suite for it. Unfortunatly, writing regression tests for something that produces large binary files that do not have deterministic contents (some bits are time-linked, some are build-system linked) seems hard to do. I will have to keep relying on my testers.

Kelly: Ah, muds -- of course! Why didn't I think of that. I'm actually very pleased I've found one of the "special limited situations" where reblessing objects is very useful indeed.

I've identified myself as a lead developer on debian. If this annoys people, I'll get rid if it, but culus said to. :-)