On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:56:02AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > It should not be a "big red deal" if an author omits the declaration of > requiring perl 5.8.mumble+. At this point, it is a reasonable > assumption that code "should" run on 5.8.8 and 5.10.+, but an > unreasonable assumption that it runs on 5.6.x or less. > > It should not be a "big red deal" if a distribution doesn't run on VMS. > This is not a system many people have ready access to or interest in.
The various tools that people have written recently for looking at CPAN-testers results make it easy to filter them by perl version and by platform. eg ... http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=DateTime+0.4304 http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=DateTime;perl=latest So if a user doesn't care about 5.6 or VMS, he can just ignore those data. > Now, also currently, there is only one web-view presentation of the > reports on search.cpan.org and cpantesters.perl.org. This also causes > conflict: > * If anybody starts a VMS smoker, the entire CPAN is likely to > light-up red. Nah. Randomly picking on DateTime again, you'll just see a tiny little red tick at the right hand edge of the green bar that's currently at the top of this page: http://www.cpantesters.org/show/DateTime.html#DateTime-0.4304 or maybe you won't, cos the overwhelming number of passes would still swamp it, just like it swamps the two fails that are there already. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" 23.5 degrees of axial tilt is the reason for the season
