Re: [MacPerl] Calling CPAN Testers

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 21.48 -0500 1999.02.02, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:08:00PM -0800, John W Baxter wrote:
>} Do you want these things tested
>}    a.  with ToolServer available on the machine
>}    b.  without ToolServer
>}    c.  both
>
>Ideally we want testers for as many different variations of the
>MacPerl theme as possible.  Tool, app, 68k, PPC.  Our coverage under
>MacPerl is quite limited compared to other OS's.

That's all true, but I would expect that the overwhelming majority of
modules should work the same on all current versions of MacPerl.  But the
more testing of different configurations, the better, so long as the
testers don't burn out.  :)


>Incidentally, people interested in testing should look at the
>configurations at the CPAN testers site that we have on file there (I
>copied mine from Chris), and try to get your :lib:Config.pm to spit
>out something similar.  I've hacked mine as the OS version went up,
>since I consider it more important that people know which MacOS I'm
>running under than the one Matthias compiled MacPerl under.

Yes, I forgot to update mine to 8.5.1.  I can make my Config.pm available
to anyone who wants it.

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