On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Westbrook <dwestbr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Whereas you wouldn't want to run a smoker on a "regular" machine (e.g. > a $work box, or your day-to-day windows desktop, or laptop, etc), > this is reasonably safe since it's only testing distros that you > already installed, which implies that they (and their dependencies) > are trusted. > Also lets you easily submit reports for all the modules you're actual > using, w/o a separate smoke environment. > I like it. Among other things, it could be used with the File transport to save reports to a directory for examination, which could be useful to check things before upgrading. > Is this useful for others? > If so, as a snippet (e.g. posted on wiki)? > as a subclass (name??) of CPAN::Reporter::Smoker? > as an additional exported sub (name??) in CPAN::Reporter::Smoker? > At the very least, I'd put it on the CPAN Testers wiki. I have no problem if you want to publish a CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::* module, but I don't think I want to include it in C::R::Smoker itself, mostly because it's a slipperly slope of extra maintenance work for me if I start accepting different ways of generating the list. -- David
