* Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-26 19:50]: > One of the very few reasons I maintain a Windows box here and > endure the pain (for me - subjective I know) that goes with it > is so I can test my modules against Win32.
So do I. And yeah, I find it painful too. But it’s not open for debate. Btw, if any people with strong Win32 skills can help me stop Proc::Fork from “segfaulting” on Windows, I’d appreciate it. I tried a whole bunch of things but ran out of ideas and it’s still broken. I asked around but no one seemed to know any better. * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-26 20:10]: > Fine then. The fact that ExtUtils make dist automatically > produces a .tar.gz and the fact that Archive::Tar does not do > the right thing is not exactly my fault however. No – *but* it does affect users that are interested in such brokenly packaged modules, so deducting Kwalitee is the correct thing to do IMO. Even if MakeMaker or Archive::Tar or whatever it is that’s broken were fixed, not every author uses the same tools, and someone might decide to use something different without knowing it’s broken. Again then it’s the author who needs to fix his distro, even though he couldn’t know that the tool he used was broken and isn’t to blame for that. So again – having this check in the metrics would serve a useful purpose. I’m not singling out Win32 people, btw. If a similar error was likely to be a Unix-based author’s gaffe, I’d still advocate a check. The collective goal is to make things that work as painlessly as possible for as many people as possible. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
