On Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:44:07 Salve J Nilsen wrote: > In fact, this argument is ludicrus, and here's why: > > 1. We're playing the Open Source Development game here, of which the prime > directive is "Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow". By denying end-users to > partake in this game (by not giving them hints of something wrong) we're > not only denying them a chance to inform themselves of the state of the > software they're about to use, but we're also missing out on feedback that > may lead to the improvement of the software, dependencies, distribution > system, distribution format, tests, documentation or ANY other thing which > may be the source of a failed test.
Please explain to me, in detail sufficient for a three year old, precisely how: 1) POD can possibly behave any differently on my machine versus anyone else's machine, being non-executed text and not executed code 2) "Failures" in POD have any bearing on the use of the distribution, especially if an end-user has installed the distribution merely as a dependency and not as a developer 3) False negatives are EVER acceptable in tests -- c
