On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:51:32PM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> (Other testers: should we put a minimum bar on the acceptable version of
> CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS for smoking, if we know that earlier versions are
> guaranteed to produce bad results?
No.
A 'FAIL' result doesn't mean "this code is broken". It doesn't even mean
"this code is broken on this version of perl and this OS". It means "it
didn't pass its tests on this particular setup".
That's why in cpXXXan I don't pay any attention to failures at all.
Given a combination of perl/OS that a dist normally passes on, there are
all kinds of reasons that it might occasionally fail, and I doubt that
an old CPAN.pm is even the most common. But it is one of the easiest to
diagnose if someone is using the test reports properly and actually
looking at the details.
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