On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Barbie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:00:44AM -0500, David Golden wrote: >> You may want to add this to your skip lists or distroprefs immediately >> if you're testing Acme modules. > > Not necessarily sure that is a good idea. Yes it will take ages to test, > but if it's exercising some of the heavy weight distributions, it might > uncover broken dependencies.
Testing this will lock up a smoker for a while just spinning on dependencies that may well have been already tested. So what does it establish? Just whether Acme::Mom::Yours can specify dependencies correctly? (It does test whether CPAN/CPANPLUS can handle that many dependencies -- without installing, it probably breaks using PERL5LIB to track uninstalled dependencies during testing.) So it pulls in lots of CPAN. If I want to test all of CPAN, I can run CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, which does the whole thing in reverse chronological order. (Which I do, of course.) I'm sure there's something like that for YACSmoke. It's silly to have made it an Acme module -- it would have been better off as a Bundle probably. -- David
