On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:03 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: >> toolchain, including CPAN clients. Testing whether something can pass >> tests on a bog-standard ancient Perl is not really useful data for >> maintainers because for a long, long time, the answer to "I can't >> install" is "upgrade your toolchain". > > It is, however, useful for people wanting to use modules.
Not really. They can't easily differentiate between problems that could be fixed if they upgraded their toolchain and problems inherent to the module itself. Showing that "PASS" is possible (if only they upgraded their toolchain) would seem to be much more useful as it indicates that using a module is achievable.
