* Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> [2013-05-23 23:20]: > Is this something that can somehow be enforced, or at least > smoke-tested on? Anyone running a CPAN smoker under a pre-M::B perl is smoke-testing that already. I know I get CPAN Testers reports for such perls but don’t know if there is systematic or only sporadic effort there. > Dependency-creep happens, sometimes in nonobvious ways, that lead to > cyclic dependencies or other weird breakages - any non-core build > system feels like it could be much more prone to gaining one of these > by accident. Once “latest stable perl” means a perl that ships without M::B, there will be *many* CPAN smokers keeping that dep chain honest. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next