[728] Removed non-portable self testing gubbins from Makefile.PL

[David Golden]

On 10/11/07, Andy Armstrong <n at rciss.us> wrote:
> Strawberry is really nice by the way. Better out of the box
> experience than ActiveState - pretty impressive for an alpha. I
> gather it has something to do with you DG?

Thanks.  I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, though.  I just
automated the build process from the original Vanilla Perl as a YAPC
2006 hackathon project.

Then I got so annoyed at stupid test failures from hard-coded file
paths in *.t files that I wrote CPAN::Reporter to have a way to submit
test reports from Win32.  That's turned out to be the bigger, more
demanding project.  ;-)

See http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules
to see what work has come *since* the release of Vanilla/Strawberry.
The advantage of having people actually run tests instead of just
relying on binary packages is that these kinds of bugs can get flushed
out and many of them fixed.


David