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Hi there, On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, demerphq wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 13:01, G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters wrote: > >> ... That's incredibly onerous. > > I'm sorry you feel that way. Please understand that I don't feel that way because it causes me any extra work. It doesn't. I feel that way because it seems to me that you're asking people to do work which isn't necessary. Wasteful, even. > It's what all the people who work hard to maintain perl do all the time. I'm sure you're right. I'm trying to eliminate some of the burden. >> Can't you just get the patched version(s) of Perl into cpan-testers >> and get everything tested automatically by the next morning, >> together with a nice page of idiot lights which show Where Things >> Failed? > > IMO no. Why not? > There are tens of thousands of modules on CPAN ... That was kinda my point. You either get a few people (if you're very lucky, apparently most people won't bother) to do a Perl build on some random machine/architecture, over which you have no control, then test it by building a few random modules (which seems to me like dropping bombs from an Avro Manchester in WWII[*]), or you get a single person to do pretty much the same job once, except CPAN test machines can now use the new Perl to build tens of thousands of modules on a bunch of different architectures, automatically, within a few hours, more or less for free. Maybe they'll even mail you a report. Isn't that going to be a much more useful exercise? It doesn't have to be after every patch, every day, of course. Just pick some version ad hoc which seems reasonable to the people doing the development. > On the other hand, pulling the latest code, and then using perlbrew to > build it and install it locally and then using cpanm to install your > favorite dependencies is not that difficult. Isn't it just as easy to do that on the machine that runs CPAN testers? Explain to my satisfaction why it isn't and I'll go away. I just want for you to give the blead Perls some really good exercise within hours of a commit instead of everybody waiting for (your estimated) couple of years for it to hit the fan. [*] About 5% of the bombs landed within five miles of the target. -- 73, Ged.Thread Previous | Thread Next