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On Friday 22 October 2004 10:31 pm, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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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. |
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umm, yes, but that's the entire point of src_test() ... it gives us confidence |
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that we're arent chasing ghost bugs |
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it's proven itself in the past to catch bogus build environments which is why |
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it's stuck around for so long as the default |
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ive had the tests segfault on me ... and you know what ? my build env |
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sucked ... i would have NEVER noticed this if it wasnt for the tests ... i |
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went back, fixed my env, and BAM perl worked fine |
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-mike |
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