# from David Landgren
# on Monday 26 May 2008:
>I wouldn't worry about the apparent unfairness of it.
Forget about fairness... Can we please just have some way to adjust the
signal/noise ratio?
>There is a long-standing discussion over whether or not Module::Build
> is a viable installation technique, due to the bootstrapping problem
> of requiring Module::Build to be installed in the first place before
> installing your own module.
It's no different than requiring Extutils::MakeMaker to be installed, so
it's not really a bootstrapping problem as much as one of outdated
assumptions, but in either case it seems to be the norm to test with an
outdated (they call it "stock" toolchain), so the signal/noise ratio is
roughly zero.
The META.yml key 'configure_requires' should fix that, but this requires
the testers to upgrade their CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS.pm, so we might start
seeing meaningful automated tests in about 5 years.
--Eric
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