I was recently lamenting, on dbi-dev mailing list, the poor coverage of
cpantesters, re a recent DBI trial release:
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI+1.617_903
Martin Evans [CC'd] said:
> On the Windows smokers question, I tried that a few years ago and
> found it a PITA eventually bringing my machine to a stand still. To be
> honest I found smoke testing on Linux/AIX/Solaris a PITA too but just
> not as much as Windows. Too many modules prompt even under smoke
> testing or have incorrect dependencies so my exclusion list just kept
> growing and growing. I just looked and I have 32263 smoke reports but
> you've no idea what problems were caused generating them and I
> eventually gave up - I really don't know how bingos (Chris Williams)
> etc manage to generate so many. Personally, I'd change cpan shell to
> send installation results by default but I don't really understand the
> complexities of this (even if they were anonymous).
Have things improved?
Tim.
