If I have somehow managed to imply I think we should junk the entire
entire current testing infrastructure and force every tester in the
world to move over to an image base testing system whether they want to
or not, then "no I didn't mean that".
But I figured that would be obvious...
Adam K
Michael G Schwern wrote:
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.
