On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 13:03:09 UTC, 0xEAB wrote:
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 10:55:04 UTC, Laurent Tréguier
wrote:
Then would it be possible to use code coverage to hint users
about packages possibly not building anymore even if they are
shown to be buildable ?
I see yet another problem here. Having to maintain a high
coverage just to get your package flagged as maintained might
lead to a package not getting maintained in the first place.
Of course, coverage can be considered a measurement for code
quality. But can one really derive the state of maintenance
from it?
Maybe not. I simply thought that it could help know if a package
would still build in real-world situations, especially with a lot
of meta-programming.
