On 5/26/07, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/26/07, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 May 2007, at 19:08, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > Is there some publicly available Solaris/HP-UX/etc > > (see full list on this page http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html ) > > set of servers where one could test his modules? > > There's the HP Testdrive thing - and there may be similar things for > other platforms. > > I can give you an account on a Linux box if it's useful?
Thanks but personally I have one in front of me and that's not the critical one IMHO.
I get the feeling the real problematic one is Windows.
It is definitely more lacking in test reports than Linux and FreeBSD mostly probably because very few people install modules on Windows from source. Here is a table I generated a few month ago http://www.szabgab.com/cpantested/perl_5.8.8_platforms.html In short: platform (number of modules with successful test reports) linux (4363) freebsd (2138) netbsd (1506) cygwin (823) darwin (770) solaris (608) MSWin32 (563) openbsd (151) hpux (2) and many platforms don't have any entries at all. On one hand it might mean not many people use those platforms, or rather they use them in environments where outgoing data is impossible or discouraged by various firewalls and proxies. I should generate that data continuously though you can also look at a more detailed table generated by Barbie: http://perl.grango.org/dmatrix.html I would like to find a way to step up this effort to get reports from other platforms as well. Oh and if there were accessible platforms we could also run the tests of core perl5 and Parrot. Gabor
