Thanks for releasing a new version of File::Slurp. I have installed it
on my Windows ActiveState Perl x64
C:\PerlModules\File-Slurp\File-Slurp-9999.16>perl -v
This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 0 (v5.12.0) built for MSWin32-
x64-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
All tests passed (some skipped on my Windows machine). I will use
File::Slurp ver 9999.16 in my applications.
C:\PerlModules\File-Slurp\File-Slurp-9999.16>nmake test
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
t/append_null.t ....... ok
t/binmode.t ........... ok
t/data_list.t ......... ok
t/data_scalar.t ....... ok
t/error.t ............. ok
t/error_mode.t ........ ok
t/file_object.t ....... ok
t/handle.t ............ ok
t/inode.t ............. skipped: skip inode test on windows
t/large.t ............. ok
t/newline.t ........... ok
t/no_clobber.t ........ ok
t/original.t .......... ok
t/paragraph.t ......... ok
t/perms.t ............. skipped: meaningless on Win32
t/pod.t ............... skipped: Test:

od 1.14 required for testing
PODe
t/pod_coverage.t ...... skipped: Test:

od::Coverage 1.04 required for
testing POD coverage
t/pseudo.t ............ ok
t/read_dir.t .......... ok
t/slurp.t ............. ok
t/stdin.t ............. ok
t/stringify.t ......... ok
t/tainted.t ........... ok
t/write_file_win32.t .. ok
All tests successful.
Files=24, Tests=277, 4 wallclock secs ( 0.14 usr + 0.08 sys = 0.22
CPU)
Result: PASS