On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote: > DBI 1.613_71 was uploaded on the 16th yet for MSWin32 there is only 1 test > report: > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.613_71;reports=1;os=MSWin32 > > Any reason for that? (Holiday season?) > > Any way it could be improved?
My guesses: I think there are relatively few automated Win32 smokers. From my personal experience running one in the past, they are slow and prone to blowing up in weird ways when distributions assume every system has unix capabilities. (Did you know that force killing a process on Win32 can -- in a small number of cases -- wedge the DLL so that the process can't be restarted without a reboot?) I suspect that some the Win32 test reports could have come from individual testers and they may not upgrade their DBI very often. If you want a virtual Win32 machine to do your own tests on, Alias supposedly can grant CPAN authors access to a Win32 VM cluster from Microsoft. (I've not personally taken advantage of it.) -- David
