Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> And then a situation might arise of
> multiple reports on the same module on essentially the same
> platform, some passing, and some failing, and having to look at
> the reports in some detail to disentangle the reasons. A casual
> browser of the cpan-testers site may not want to bother doing
> this, making the service less useful.

I wonder wether there are many "casual browser" on the cpan-testers
site. Probably there are more of this kind on "search.cpan.org" and
here the user might be really confused, because of "PASS" and "FAIL"
for the same platform. Not only because of the PREREQ problem, but
because of different versions of the perl interpreter used for testing.
(I have sent a few fails for i686 of older modules which allready had
a i686 pass for 5.6.0 or older perls)... IMHO, here the really confusion
starts.  

Autrijus, does "cpanp -c MODULE" just give information for the
hardware platform and  if  could it be tuned to support multiple
versions of perl as well if there are different reports for them?

Andreas




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