On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:21:19PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > The image-based platforms would be able to implement a fresh > from-the-base-install install of each module. This would also greatly > help to focus attention on modules that many many others rely on as a > dep that don't install right.
That's a whole lot of effort on the part of the volunteers for very little gain. Especially when there's much simpler ways for the author to verify that they've listed all their prereq's which don't involve everybody else's doing extra work. Also, it eliminates one of the valuable parts of CPAN testers: testing in the wild. If you create an artificially clean environment (the clean image), then install all the latest versions of dependent modules into it and then run the tests you'll never see a whole host of interesting bugs triggered by different dependent module version combinations. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
