It seems like most of the changes I've seen lately to bleadperl have been changes to tests. That's a good thing. Except that I usually have more porting to do on perl tests than on C code. :-) But it does look like Schwern et al have done some good work on portability of tests etc. Maybe it won't be too bad. Early next year when I get to full-scale bleadperl porting, we'll see.
