On 13 Sep 2006, at 19:28, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Adrian Howard wrote:
On 13 Sep 2006, at 05:37, Michael G Schwern wrote:
[snip]
(For the sarcasm impaired, if you're just going to store the whole
post-install source tarball you might as well just grab it from CPAN
again)
[snip]
Isn't the post-install source tree potentially different in useful
ways
from the pre-install source tree?
I'd wager that at least 90% of all modules neither modify their
code before installation nor change the behavior of "make/Build
test". There are two common exceptions. 1) Installing Perl
scripts which only change the #! line and 2) Installing XS which
generates new files. In both cases you have the altered files
already installed to test against.
They'll also be
3) Tests that rely on local configuration
Archiving installed source dists might be useful, but I don't think
its generally useful. Which is to say, write a tool to do it but
don't build it into the existing installation tools.
Sounds sane to me.
Adrian
