On Sat, 11 May 2002, Robert wrote: > Bottom line is that there are a lot of modules to test. > While some people have the drive to manually test each one, > some don't (like me). Autrijus and crew have put together a > wonderful package which allows automated testing of modules.
It's a great package, no doubt about that ... And it's wonderful that such effort has been put into being able to report test results so easily ... > I will continue to use this module, and when someone asks > questions about a failing module, I will answer to the best > of my ability. I do believe FAIL grade is correct when a > module author either doesn't know about PREREQ_PM, or fails > to correctly fill theirs out completely (through > forgetfulness or lazyness or other reasons an author may have ... not wanting to belabour the point, but one problem I have with this policy is consistency - on the same system, the grade would depend upon the order used to test a set of packages. > Maybe you could write some perl module which would automatically update > PREREQ_PM when doing a make dist? See Module::Info, which illustrates the difficulty in doing this reliably ... best regards, randy
