thanks for the comments! Any suggestions for a good CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::* subclass name?
--david On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:31 PM, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
