On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Questions for cpantesters-discuss:
> - Are there any guidelines for minimum available memory for cpan-testing?

Not that I've seen, nor would I support having them.  The goal of CPAN
Testers is to test modules on as wide a range of platforms as
possible.  That includes low-memory virtual hosts.  Perl even
supposedly runs on android devices -- which would be a severe memory
constraint.  I'm happy to have testers submit reports from as wide a
variety of systems as possible.

If I get a new Kindle for the holidays, I might see if Jesse can help
me turn my old one into a dedicated CPAN Testers machine.  :-)

> - Could the ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER CONTEXT section show available memory?

The information reported is unique to each client (CPAN::Reporter and
CPANPLUS) though these have converged a bit in recent years.  Ideally,
we'd have one common underlying module for providing such information.

If someone were to offer up a cross platform way of reporting it, I'd
be happy to apply it to CPAN::Reporter.

-- David

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