On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested > are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm > thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix. > > Irix is an especially interesting platform, both for CPAN authors and > p5p, because it doesn't so much have a compiler as a complier. Back when > I was testing on it I found quite a few dodgy assumptions being made > about data types. And one of these days I'll get round to buying another > Irix machine. One day.
Do CPAN Testers as an organisation have funds that can be allocated to buy (and host) such interesting machines? Would it make sense to set up one? Is gittip^Wgratipay the right place to send some money to CPAN Testers? -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) It matters not how grand your plans when they are built on a faulty foundation. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #19 (Epic))
