Gabor Szabo wrote:
So does that mean others are not interested in separate reporting of "thing is broken" vs "could not even execute test"
I'm very much interested in it. I've not been following the rest of this thread, but if you're talking about reporting things like XS modules not compiling/linking, then I certainly think it would be useful.
However, there is a danger of false positives. Lots of ordinary users (never mind people doing smoke testing!) would, I imagine, be quite likely to report a build "error" when trying to build, eg, GD-$latest when they have an ancient libgd on their system. It's hard to tell the difference, at least without paying significant attention to detail, between that, which is not an error, and the error that is GD-$latest failing to build against libgd-$latest.
So I suggest that these particular reports should only ever be sent to authors who have explicitly opted in to them by, eg, setting an option in META.yml.
-- David Cantrell
