On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:06:06PM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Saturday, 2002-05-18 at 08:06:42 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > Perl 5.7.3 is known to be broken. Please use the current bleadperl instead. > Please do not use Beta versions of perl for CPAN testing. And especially > not bleadperl, as it is Alpha code.
I agree that automatic cpansmoke should better run under perl 5.6.1 or 5.005_03. However, as there is a 'perl executable configuration' directory in http://testers.cpan.org/, wouldn't it also benefit authors to know that their works are broken by 5.7.3, hence having a chance to correct it before 5.8 arrives? > If you must test with 5.7.x or bleadperl, please do not send > the results to the database. 5.007_03 222 5.007_02 23 5.007_01 466 Since the database query interface can't tell bleadperl from pointperl, I think not testing under bleadperl is valid. But 5.7.3 does provide many useful data points, in my very humble opinion... Would it be better if we can post a policy on http://testers.cpan.org/? /Autrijus/
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