Im sort of looking for the opposite of that list, which would include
hypothetical's 

Dean 

On 2014-08-26 14:13, Gabor Szabo wrote: 

> If I am not mistaken you are looking for the data I referred to yesterday 
> http://stats.cpantesters.org/mplatforms.html [1] 
> when I was looking for a graph to see the trends in number of reports / OS 
> (or rather platform). 
> Sinan linked to a script extracting the data from the HTML, but I have not 
> had time to create a graph from it yet. 
> 
> Gabor
> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Dean Hamstead <d...@fragfest.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> I was looking to fire up some cpan smokers, but adding yet another linux 
>> i386/amd64 smoker probably isnt needed. In the past i have run DragonflyBSD 
>> and OpenBSD smokers.
>> 
>> Looking through the list it's clear that there is a lot of coverage across a 
>> lot of different platforms, but its not clear which ones are deficient etc.
>> 
>> On top of os+arch, there are also obviously a range of different ways you 
>> can compile perl - made far easier with perlbrew - which also need testing.
>> 
>> Hence I wonder if there is something a matrix that shows deficiencies in 
>> testing coverage, which will give people like myself a quick list of 
>> platforms we could fire up in a VM (or old hardware we could 
>> beg/borrow/steal/ebay)
>> 
>> I guess in an ideal world, list out every known supported OS and hardware, 
>> then multiply that out by all the different perl compilation variations. 
>> From that list it could then be determined which platforms are keeping up 
>> with the testing and which are lagging behind. That list could then give the 
>> curious and willing something to work with?
>> 
>> Dean
 

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