Stas Bekman wrote:
You probably have noticed that almost every time there is a bug report from a person who is doing this for the first time, we need to tell them: go to
http://perl.apache.org/bugs and follow the guidelines for a proper bug-report. I was thinking how can we save this wasteful cycle. For example we could adjust the failure message of 'make test' (in both mp1 and mp2) to provide that information.
sure. I had a similar thought this afternoon, which is why I pinged the pmc wondering where the list footers for modperl@ got off to...
Certainly it's going to be hard with post-install problems. But we could finish the 'make install' target with a banner explaining what to do in the case of the post-install errors. Certainly this would be missed by those who install RPMs and similar prepackaged distros (though they could be changed to print a notice as well), but many install from source so that would help a lot I think.
Something as simple and outstanding as:
**************************************************** * * * Got a problem? See http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ * * * ****************************************************
if we want to do that, some kind of bounding box for the information we already put out after 'make install' might be a good idea as well - the Apache2 stuff kinda gets hidden at the end of the output and doesn't stand out all that much. we also might want to consider a nice completion banner of some sort. I'm kinda partial to a format similar to one at the end of an apache-1.3 install myself :)
--Geoff
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