On 4/18/06, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The aformentioned change to Test::Builder broke 3 different Test-Testing > modules that relied on it.
3? I only know of 2 - Test::Builder::Tester (which scrapes and broke) and Test::Tester (which doesn't scrape and didn't break). Is there another Test-Testing module? F > > That broke 28 Test modules which used them. > > That broke 115 various CPAN modules. > > That broken 880 other CPAN modules. > > And so on and so forth, until the end number ended up somewhere between > 2000 and 3000 distributions. > > So 30% of all CPAN modules broke. > > This included things like almost ALL of WWW::, because Mechanize got > sucked into it. God knows how many darkpan Mech modules got hurt as well. > > Do we blame ALL of those 100s of developers? > > Does blame even matter at that point? > > This is what I mean by becoming an API even though you didn't want to be. > > Adam K >
