* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-05 19:50]: > If I could see somehow that my distribution implicitly runs on > Perl 5.001 (or explicitly runs only on 5.11.0), or that it has > no Makefile.PL or Build.PL, or any of the other dozens of > packaging quirks that can cause problems, I could fix them > before uploading and before triggering a wave of testing.
That’s CPANTS, the useful part of it anyway… except that the feedback cycle is even *much* slower there than with the Testers. CPANTS is really miscast as a service; the useful bits should really be extracted and made part of the `distcheck` targets of the various Perl distro toolchains. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
