On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:29:11PM +0200, rosenfield.alb...@gmail.com wrote: > > Where do you get the 70%/30% ratio from? > > Uploaded a package to CPAN with > - a test that fails when DBI is not installed, and > - a Build.PL which does not indicate that DBI is a requirement (even > though it is).
And then you counted pass/fail stats that largely come from automated smoke testers on virtual machines that have their modules removed after each run. > > I'd like to see details of the specific underlying problems that cause > > build failures with the current release. Ideally with some indication of > > which are the most frequent. > > You would be missing the point. > > (The point being not to pour lots of work into making the C version > work everywhere, but to make it just *possible* to install only the > PurePerl version on the <1% of systems where the C version cannot be > made to work or other reasons motivate the use of the PurePerl > version.) As I said before, I'll happily take a patch to Makefile.PL that detects the lack of a C compiler and then alters %opts so WriteMakefile() writes a Makefile that won't try to compile DBI.xs etc etc. Tim.
