# from David Golden
# on Sunday 21 October 2007 08:30:
>As I see it, the root of
>"the problem" is that there are many ways for things to fail, and
>authors tend to object to getting "FAIL" grades (in big capital
>letters) for things outside their control.
It would be nice if the reports were somehow queryable WRT machine
config and failure mode. Sorting through a slew of reports is a real
pain when some have no usable information (like an error message) and
others are just poorly configured systems, but you have to skim past
the boilerplate header on every one, etc. At some point, you have to
wonder whether the PASS reports even mean anything.
I could really care less if an old CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS.pm or perl 5.005
fails, especially if it is due to "inventing" a Makefile.PL, etc. Why
not test against perl4 and throw those results in with the rest too?
--Eric
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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
predict the future is to invent it.
--Alan Kay
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