On Friday 27 January 2006 23:40, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Something like a clean_install metric. If there are any FAIL entries in > CPAN Testers against the current version of your module, you lose a point.
> The PITA-based (what I'm thinking of calling) Vanilla Testers system is > intended for a similar purpose. Test modules based on installation from > scratch. With this focus on more-practical aspects, we can zero on the > module within CPAN that are causing the most problem FAR more easily, > and we know where attention needs to be placed. Let me save you the trouble of writing it to find the biggest problem right now: fairly broken automated testing systems that can't even *run* the Build.PL file *or* the compatibility Makefile.PL yet send FAIL reports anyway. Right now you might as well skip the check and assign a point based on rand() seeded by the current phase of the moon. At least that's not truly random. -- c
