On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:07 PM, David Westbrook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Proposition:
> + Provide an easy way to execute CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, limited
> just to distributions that have any version installed on the system
> (instead of all of CPAN).
In general I think this is a good idea and I probably would run it on my
development machine.
>
> Pros:
> + In theory is safer than full smoke, since only testing "trusted"
> distros (and their deps) -- the user trusted the distro enough to
> install it in the first place.
For additional safety you might want to limit the installations to
1) Modules that already have N reports in the database
meaning that some other testers have already tested it.
2) Modules that have been on CPAN for at least M days
hoping that if the module and its tests do something bad
someone has already caught this, reported to the
"rulers of CPAN" and the module was taken off CPAN.
regards
Gabor
