Re: DBI package problem?

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:29:11PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > Where do you get the 70%/30% ratio from?
> 
> Uploaded a package to CPAN with
>  - a test that fails when DBI is not installed, and
>  - a Build.PL which does not indicate that DBI is a requirement (even
> though it is).

And then you counted pass/fail stats that largely come from automated
smoke testers on virtual machines that have their modules removed
after each run.

> > I'd like to see details of the specific underlying problems that cause
> > build failures with the current release. Ideally with some indication of
> > which are the most frequent.
> 
> You would be missing the point.
> 
> (The point being not to pour lots of work into making the C version
> work everywhere, but to make it just *possible* to install only the
> PurePerl version on the <1% of systems where the C version cannot be
> made to work or other reasons motivate the use of the PurePerl
> version.)

As I said before, I'll happily take a patch to Makefile.PL that detects
the lack of a C compiler and then alters %opts so WriteMakefile() writes
a Makefile that won't try to compile DBI.xs etc etc.

Tim.