Jim,
Are you familiar with http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Date-Easy?
Sure.
The fact that your other CPAN distributions are shown in the matrix as
mostly PASSing -- see http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?author=BAREFOOT --
suggests that there are real problems with Date-Easy.
Oh, absolutely: I know there's a real problem, and I know exactly where
it is in the code, and I have a _rough_ idea of how to fix it. The
problem is, the problem doesn't show up on every system: only about 85%
of them. My personal system just happens to be in the 15%. :-(
So I want to be able to build a Perl that is in the 85%, and then I can
fix the problem pretty easily.[1] Without that, the only way I can see
if my code works is to release a new version to CPAN every time and then
wait to see what the smokers throw up. That's a pretty slow dev cycle.
:-) So that's what I'm trying to avoid.
The challenge is to be able to identify exactly which aspect of a system
causes it to be in the 85% vs the 15%. Admittedly the config_args thing
was a wild guess that just happened to show some correlation with the
problem.
My own hunch is
that these problems have little or nothing to do with whether
'config_args' is populated or not.
As is Tony's. I'm still looking. Going to try Curtis' suggestion next.
On the plus side, I'm really souping up Tobyink's `cpan-testers`
script.[2] :-) So I'll toss out my modified version once I finish with
that and hopefully it can be useful to other folks as well.
-- Buddy
[1] Assuming of course that the problem is caused by a particular build
as opposed to something I can't control for, like, say, a certain OS.
But I'm _fairly_ sure that that is the case.
[2] http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=978606
