On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:16:15PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:50:05 +0000, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> > >>>>> said: > > > I'm strugling to find a common denominator in these test results: > > > http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=Devel-NYTProf+2.07_94 > > > It would be wonderful if there was some tool that would analyse the > > perl -V output and help identify the combinations of settings associated > > with failures - assuming there is a pattern. > > The tool exists: CPAN::Testers::ParseReport comes with the program > ctgetreports. Pay attention to the --solve parameter.
Wonderful! Many thanks Andreas. > Unfortunately, > in your case no findings except what David Golden already mentioned: > > Regression 'meta:from' > **************************************************************** > Name Theta StdErr T-stat > [0='const'] 1.0000 0.1574 6.35 > [...] > [2='eq_bin...@cpan.org'] -0.9412 0.1619 -5.81 > > which tells us that normally the tests succeed but if the tester is > bin...@cpan.org, there is only 6% PASS. > > Indeed, bingos reported one PASS: 3151674 I'm coming to the conclusion that should release anyway as *no one* has been able to reproduce the specific fault in the bingos failures. Very strange though... Tim.