[rt.cpan.org #39810] Resulf of ::Type::Pack and ::Type::Unpack discarded

[Daniel Dragan via RT]

Fri Oct 19 04:42:49 2012: Request 39810 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by BULKDD
Queue: Win32-API
Subject: Resulf of ::Type::Pack and ::Type::Unpack discarded
Broken in: 0.47, 0.56
Severity: Normal
Owner: COSIMO
Requestors: IKE...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39810 >


On Fri Oct 24 05:16:23 2008, ike...@adaelis.com wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Cosimo Streppone via RT <
> bug-Wi...@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
>
> > <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39810 >
> >
>
> I still intend to work on this. I just can't before the end of the month.


In 0.69 the automatic un/packing bug was fixed, but because it would
break API compatibility (if you unpacked it manually, accounting for a
decade of this bug) for what was previously binary, to suddenly be
printable, and then unpacking the printable, would be a problem. If you
want automatic un/packing of buffers, create a Win32::API::More object,
starting in 0.69. Therefore I am closing this bug as fixed.