On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Andreas J. Koenig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:13:35 -0500, "David Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>>>>> said:
>
>  > I've been meaning to hack at Test::Reporter to wrap long lines, but I
>  > really have no idea if that will work or not.
>
> But isn't wrapping long lines an evil approach to an unverified
> assumption? Fom the nature of what we are doing, long lines are to be
> expected, like long diagnostics lines of long lines in perl -V, etc.

Wrapping is evil, except that the SMTP protocol does specify a maximum
line length of 1000 characters that I think some reports could be
exceeding.  Net::SMTP doesn't actually check so it just takes whatever
it's given and puts it on the wire.

As I said, it's a hypothesis and I don't know that it will work, but
at the same time, if we're violating SMTP, that could explain why this
is a heisenbug for some testers but not others.

-- David

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