Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from March 2017
I started the process of running a cpan smoke test for this and noticed that even CPAN::Reporter and YAML::Syck fail under PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=0. I'll start uploading reports and sharing results with the list once I've had a chance to make sure that this test environment isn't horribly broken... On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> wrote: > TL;DR: > - Testers, please set PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=0 to make the bugs actually show > up. > - P5P: I don't know what to say, but testers aren't yet to really even > start showing the real . in @INC Bugs, please proceed with caution. > > ---- > > I'm getting a little afraid that not enough testers are running in > configurations that expose '.' in @INC errors. > > I had expected to have the Testers Matrixes filled with reds and > yellows already, but it seems whenever I stumble into a "this package > is broken with '.' in @INC", I look in the matrix, and all I see is > green. > > This means all 3 classes of scope problems are hidden. > > - Makefile.PL failures are missing > - t/ failures are missing > > and importantly: > > - tests exposing runtime bugs are missing. > > Because setting '.' by default in the test phases not only makes the > tests pass superficially, > but hides the runtime bugs. > > For example, Data::FormValidator has a runtime bug: > > https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120671 > > And yet: > > http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Data-FormValidator+4.85 > > I'm the only person of the many who tested it to spot the failure that > affects 5.26 > > Essentially, it seems the Majority of testers right now are repressing > a serious failure path in their tester stacks. > > Here's something further upriver: > > http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=MRO-Compat+0.12 > > Makefile.PL broken "because MI". > > This is a real problem that affects downstream installations and > vendors.( Even though vendors will do their own testing/stuff, seeing > the bugs upstream before they percolate through the ecosystem is very > much useful ) > > But so far I'm the only one who had a stack setup to error. ( And it > wasn't even hard: I'm just using cpanm ) > > -- > Kent > > KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL >Thread Previous | Thread Next