On Jan 7, 2008 6:07 PM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usually when they grumble about particular distributions being tested > it's because a tester has gone and tested something hideously ancient.
That's why I think that telling them to go update META.yml isn't an answer. (Though it should be an option as well.) > A danger, however, is that if we were to all suddenly start skipping > everything by author FOOBAR then the normal way to do that would be to > just not download his modules. That means that anything that depends on > his modules would also not get tested. Which is bad. It would be nice > to come up with a mechanism that would only affect the sending of test > reports - so then testers would still download my stuff if something > else depends on it, but just not bug FOOBAR with failure reports. If > CPAN::Reporter and YACSmoke could share the same 'blacklist' file that > would be awesome. That's a good point. I'll probably work up some config options for CPAN::Reporter to specify an exclude list. I'm trying to get a virtual machine smoking rig going at home -- doing so will be motivation to extend/fix CPAN::Reporter in helpful ways like that. > YAML, BTW, while a great format for us humans to update, is probably not > the best one to use while actually running tests. To read it requires > the YAML module, and I like to test on a bare-bones perl, which doesn't > have YAML. But I can easily turn YAML into perl code using > Data::Dumper, so please please please support that as well, like Andreas > does for distribution prefs files. How about something even easier -- like MANIFEST.SKIP format: pure text, one regex per line checked against the "CPAN-style" distribution name. (I.e. "DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Reporter-1.0601.tar.gz") Thus: # TESTERS.SKIP ^CRANKY ^UNCLE ^\w+/Acme ^\w+/Ancient-Distro-Shouldnt-Be-Tested On reflection, I think that would be a nice example of the KISS principle in action. I'll look to add a "skipfile" option to the next CPAN::Reporter to jump start this, then we can figure out a repository to use. David
