On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:09:56PM -0400, David Golden wrote:

> But I've never heard a single complaint about a bogus PASS report

I suspect a lot of that is because authors look at the subject line and
think "oh good, my code works on Irix, aren't I clever!" and don't
actually read it.  I know that *I* never bothered reading PASSes that I
got.

>               most of the false positives that provoke complaint are
> toolchain issues during PL or make/Build.

I've dealt with these by thanking the author for uploading his
excellent test suite for Test::More/Tk/OpenBSD or whatever it was that
was really "at fault".  With a smiley.  It seems to go down pretty well.

-- 
David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

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