On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:08:46PM +0300, Serguei Trouchelle wrote: > David Golden wrote: > > >So I keep noticing "litter" in my home directory while running the > >smoker. It looks like either temp files or default locations for > >things. I consider that bad behavior for tests. > > > >I'm considering making my home directory read-only and then smoking > >all of CPAN again to see what fails its tests. > > > >Do people think this would be useful or am I just getting overly > >annoyed without good reason? > > When smoking MSWin32 perl, I have some files written to /, /tmp/, or > even /userdata/smueller/ (and have to clean up all this stuff).
I used to get tons of this sort of thing. It was annoying when modules would unwrap into the .cpanplus/build directory, as opposed to their unquiely named build directory below that. Though I would say the home directory would be easier to spot. I can forgive /tmp somewhat, but again it doesn't always work on other OSs, and assuming you're working on a Unix style system did make distributions fail a few times when I was testing. > So yes, it's a good idea. Agreed. CPANTS checks for this in the unwrapping, but we currently don't have any suggestions for the actual testing. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
