On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:32:14AM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * Nigel Horne <n...@bandsman.co.uk> [2013-01-04T09:43:13] > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:19:43PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 09:07:32AM -0800, MPR wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Andreas Koenig > > > > <andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote: > > > > > One might argue the ultimate goal of cpantesters is to find bugs. I'd > > > > > say yes, but the bugs should be relevant. Bugs in very old and > > > > > irrelevant combinations are *usually* noise that makes useful work > > > > > harder for everybody involved. > > > > You say "usually". Is there a case where it might be useful to test > > > > and send reports against an old version? > > > Sure. Even if a module's author doesn't care, the module's users do. > > +1 > ...but who is a "user" on a year old development version?
No-one. And that's not what I was talking about. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig It wouldn't hurt to think like a serial killer every so often. Purely for purposes of prevention, of course.
