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On Thu October 21 2004 21:05, David Sparks wrote: |
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> Gentoo with its plethora of compiler flags and libs is an environment |
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> where the Perl core regression tests really add confidence that the |
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> language is working properly. |
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I disagree. Confidence for who... Gentoo developers? Perl can break |
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despite automated tests. That's pretty much true for any application. |
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Automated tests are mainly a tool for upstream and OS developers updating |
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perl versions, such as when we decide to version bump and ~mask. |
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Optionally for downstream user-developers who are seeing problems with a |
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perl application and need to be sure it isn't perl itself. |
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Forcing everyone to go through the torture tests is unnecessary, especially |
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since it causes problems for some people. It should be optional. That is |
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what "maketest" and src_test is for. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F |
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