Hi Karen, Going back to your original thought...
(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? I've thought about adding a check right > in Makefile.PL for the version of the cpan client (for information purposes > only - that wouldn't affect the outcome of the build) -- what versions > should I be looking for?) > Specifically for the smokers, this might not be a bad thing. However, it can still be nice to see whether the base install (including the toolchain) is capable of getting a PASS report. Sadly, it isn't easy to detect this currently, so that the reports site could selectively allow you to ignore FAILs on base installs, where a newer part of the toolchain exists. If we were to recommend a minimum version for each part of the toolchain (and smoke chain too), I think this should be a page on the CPAN Testers Wiki, that we can refer testers to. Particularly new testers. However, what are the minimum versions? Would suggestions be made based on the perl version, or a blanket minimum version? Recommendation would need to cover all 3 main installers and associate smoker clients, as well as the transport tools. Does anyone have any minimum recommendations to start with (aside from "the latest version")? Thanks, Barbie. -- Birmingham.pm - http://birmingham.pm.org CPAN Testers - http://cpantesters.org YAPC Surveys - http://yapc-surveys.org Perl Jam - http://perljam.info
