On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:26:27PM -0400, Casey West wrote:
: On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:34:32PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
: : Mark-Jason Dominus [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
: : *>
: : *>It seems to me that if you want people to help with this, you might
: : *>want make the submission instructions more prominent. I missed the
: : *>cpantest script on the first pass because it was buried in the middle,
: : *>in a section that appears to be about the mailing list.
: : *>
: : *>Try moving it to the top of the page, and adding
: : *>
: : *> <h1>We Need Your Test Results</h1>
: : *>
: : *>
: : *>I hope this is considered constructive.
: :
: : Absolutely as I just removed the blurb about 'uncovered platforms' that
: : may have given people the wrong impression that they'd only be welcome
: : with an esoteric platform.
: :
: : Making the test script more prominent would help too :)
:
: Like part of the Perl core? It's tiny and extremley useful. Even
: more useful would be to include it with the core to sumbit reports for
: the core modules when someone builds Perl, provided they set the
: oppropriate flag. This would let everyone with an installed Perl test
: modules. What's a few more bytes in 10MB?
Or, put the bulk of the code into CPAN.pm, thus:
perl -MCPAN -e'report install Foo::Bar'
And the script can just be a front end to CPAN::report() or some such.
Casey West
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