: Although I don't think the idea of automatically sending test results : has been considered, interfacing the cpantest script with CPAN.pm : has been discussed before. Determining what's "useful" or not : could be tricky, as there may be variations among similar platforms : that might affect the test results. Automatically sending test results
true... i'm not sure what kind of backend there is for storing test data (after cpantest sends the email, how does the data get into the testers.cpan.org site ?) but perhaps if the primary DB for test results was modified to allow multiple results for each module/perl/osname/osvers/arch pair, it could keep track of things like "on this type of system, the tests succeeded for 2/2 active testers, and 230/245 passive testers" : ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/CPAN-Report-0.91.tar.gz : This allows one, within the shell, to submit reports via a : "cpantest" method, using much the same syntax as the cpantest i haven't look at it yet, but it sounds like a good idea. Does the CPAN shell save the test results when you (try to) do an install or test ? .. would this addition allow you to submit the existing test results, or would it try to turn the tests again? (some of those test can take a while) : script. The ability to automatically send test results after : installing a module, at least for successful installations, could : be added to this, if there's a desire. i would think so -- but i'm no authority. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh, you're a tricky one." Chris M Hostetter -- Trisha Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
