On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Michael G Schwern wrote: > 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.
I think it would be most valuable to have both. If someone here is interested in implementating a clean-boot test system you might take a look at my work on the Krang test farm. It uses VMWare to boot a clean machine for the start of each test with non-persistent disks. -sam
