Testing with ourselves.

[Andy Armstrong]

On 13 Sep 2007, at 00:00, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> MakeMaker, Module::Build and Test::More all test and install  
> themselves with
> themselves.  From experience, broken or out of date installed  
> versions are
> persistent, annoying problems once you start getting lots of users  
> doing installs.

OK, I'll buy that. I'm still uneasy about the self certification aspect.

Does cpan just look at the exit code from make test / ./Build test to  
decide whether the tests passed? If so - and we release a version  
that always exits with zero on some random platform then that would  
get installed.

Maybe I should stop worrying about it and get back to making coverage  
graphs ;)

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net