About this distro
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This collection of scripts and modules provides access to the APC (All
Perl Changes) archive:

* The module Perl::Repository::APC provides methods to get at the
  important metadata of the APC: branches, perl versions and patches.

* The script patchaperlup is a low level script that only builds new
  perl sources from old perl sources by applying numerically sorted
  patchfiles.

* The script buildaperl is a wrapper around patchaperlup that is able
  to compile and install a new perl into its own cache area.

* The script binsearchaperl is a wrapper around buildaperl that is
  able to run already built perls from the cache area, build new perls
  via buildaperl and compare their functionality. If there is a
  different behaviour between two perls, the script is able to
  determine the exact patch number that caused the change.

Copyright
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Code and data are copyright (C) 2002,2003 Andreas Koenig
<andreas.koenig@anima.de>. They can be used, modified, and
redistributed under the same terms as Perl itself.
