On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forget about fairness... Can we please just have some way to adjust the > signal/noise ratio?
Would you like to be copied on all PASS reports? That would improve your perception of the ratio. :-) > 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 it's not really a bootstrapping problem as much as one of outdated 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 outdated (they call it "stock" toolchain), so the signal/noise ratio is 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. That's only a failing of CPANPLUS/CPAN::YACSmoke. CPAN::Reporter::Smoker requires Module::Build because I think a smoke test should assume a relatively modern toolchain. In my opinion, smoke testing "bare metal" installs of years-old Perl doesn't add a lot of value. Regards, David
