Moin,
On Friday 27 January 2006 23:55, chromatic wrote:
> On Friday 27 January 2006 14:43, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> > Part of the problem is that a lot of modules out there are fully
> > functional even when a few of their tests fail due to assumptions
> > about the environment they are being tested in. Another part is that
> > the ActiveState perl package build process ("cpanrun") doesn't behave
> > exactly the same way as CPAN::YACSmoke. So, a lot of packages that
> > build successfully for CPAN testers don't for ppm.activestate.com
> > (and sometimes, the opposite is true).
>
> Indeed, another of the longstanding issues with the AS repository is
> that AS rarely reports build and test errors back to module authors.
> (For errors where their build system as at fault, I don't mind.)
>
> Yet Luke's idea of promoting PPM (or a similar system) as a binary
> installation process has a lot of merit. I hesitate to want to support
> users who've installed any of my software without running the tests
> themselves, but a system that could install modules as easily as
> through the CPAN or CPANPLUS shell without requiring compilation could
> be very useful.Which is probably _very_ exactly what the FreeBSD port system is doing. And from what little I see from them (I google sometimes for my own modules) they are very uptodate and make my modules in the latest version available. (Heh, thanx FreeBSD porters!) ActiveState rarely builds anything of my stuff due to whatever reasons - and most of them looked like their own build system stumbling over it's own legs :-/ Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Sat Jan 28 00:04:32 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Eat, eat, eat, eat the delicious sandwich!" -- Elan the Bard (Order of the Stick)
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