Re: CPANTS: suggestion for a new metric

2007-05-29 Thread David Cantrell
demerphq wrote: On 5/26/07, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK it is not Archive::Tar either. I have not found out which compression software packages do it right and which do it wrong. I have communicated with several authors about it but being Windows users, they do not know it

Re: testing on other platforms

2007-05-29 Thread David Cantrell
Gabor Szabo wrote: If you have already started to argue about Windows vs Unix issues is there a way - besides uploading to CPAN and waiting for the CPAN testers to test my modules on platforms I don't have? [*] I have guest accounts on all of my machines - but that's only Linux, OpenBSD (both

HP Testdrive

2007-05-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
In a previous thread Andy Armstrong mentioned the HP Testdrive thing. I checked it out a bit at http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ . They have all kinds of nice HP machines with various OS-es. I would like to play with the systems a bit build perl on these and maybe run CPAN smoking. If for nothing el