On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:46, chromatic wrote:
I don't like the check testers/grumble/upload new distribution with no
functional changes just niggly little packaging bits you hope will
opt out of
testers tests you don't care about/sleep/repeat cycle. It's a slow,
clunky
black box game where the rules aren't always clear and you have to
upload new
versions of your distributions that don't do much for most of your
users.
Yeah, but that's a symptom of the voluneerism of the organization. We
don't have a dedicated serve farm you can upload a potential
distribution to and get results in an hour. It'd be nice to have, but
uploading development releases to CPAN and waiting 24-48 hours is as
close as it gets right now.
I would find some sort of *optional* distribution packaging best
practices
scanner more useful here than getting CPAN Testers reports (by
whatever
mechanism). If I could see somehow that my distribution implicitly
runs on
Perl 5.001 (or explicitly runs only on 5.11.0), or that it has no
Makefile.PL
or Build.PL, or any of the other dozens of packaging quirks that can
cause
problems, I could fix them before uploading and before triggering a
wave of
testing.
Not a bad idea. Surely someone could write a test (or Perl Critic
plugin) for that, yes?
Best,
David
