Smoke (was Re: Give up your modules!)

2006-08-24 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 24 Aug 2006, at 13:59, David Golden wrote: I want to endorse imacat on her contributions. She runs one of the best smoke testers on cpan-testers: it's really strict and seems to catch lots of people out on subtle dependency problems. She's also been very responsive to questions I've

Re: Smoke (was Re: Give up your modules!)

2006-08-24 Thread David Golden
Andy Armstrong wrote: What specifically is imacat doing that makes her an example of best practice and how may others do something similar? She would have to answer that definitively, but from what I can tell, it looks like she might be using an isolated, fresh perl installation (that isn't

Re: Smoke (was Re: Give up your modules!)

2006-08-24 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 24 Aug 2006, at 14:13, David Golden wrote: She would have to answer that definitively, but from what I can tell, it looks like she might be using an isolated, fresh perl installation (that isn't even in the $PATH) that gets reset after each smoke. From test reports I've seen, it looks

Re: Smoke (was Re: Give up your modules!)

2006-08-24 Thread imacat
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:05:34 +0100 Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Aug 2006, at 13:59, David Golden wrote: What specifically is imacat doing that makes her an example of best practice and how may others do something similar? This may be off-topic. I do not know what is