On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 09:36 +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > If you do realize, but it takes you 3 days to update once mainline > > was fixed, and it takes mainline 3 days to update once Joe Random's > > patch was submitted, why should new users from these 3 days get a > > buggy, outdated version when a better one is updated? > > Because it was obviously good enough _already_ to allow the testing to > proceed successfully. And if it was a problem, well I would have updated > my dependency on that testing version to the current one, and when I > reroll the dist if fails, wanting the newer version.
I don't feel as confident as you do that if the tests all passed on your machine that they'll automatically pass everywhere. Yuval's point about bundling dependencies falling out of date elsewhere is pretty strong. Regardless, what are your reasons for using Module::Install to create distributable bundles? I'd like to understand more the problems it addresses in hopes of trying to understand the real problems that various users face. -- c
