Re: Smoke question

Op een wisselvallige herfstdag (Thursday 30 October 2003 10:07), schreef 
H.Merijn Brand:

> I'd like to test the complete smoke suite with a single environment value
> set
>
> On cygwin, for example try to see the influence of changing $CYGWIN, or
> on *nix setting $UNIX95 and see if all still passes
>
> is there a guide to fit this in the conf, or do I just set it in the
> calling .sh or do I set it in my current shell and call the smoke by hand,

Hmmm.. depends on how early in the process you want this.
It was my perception that F<Policy.sh> was just for this sort of thing, but if 
you feel that is too late in the process I suppose one could set this stuff 
from the configsmoke-generated jcl.

> or do you think it is a bad idea after all ...

No, I guess people will try to build perl in their own environment, which 
might pretty well be completely different from ours. But pumpkings might 
think different.

I believe that we need some sort of API to handle this from Test::Smoke *and* 
make it report such information in a generic way.

Good luck,

Abe
-- 
[about random hash-seed]
On Windows, I guess we just seed using the user's
credit card number as extracted from the registry. Product activation
collects that, doesn't it?
                                      -- Nicholas Clark on p5p @ 2003-07-07