Re: testing alpha toolchain modules

On this thread, Eric asked how to run a "scientific" style test.

Here's an idea based on CPAN Testers tools -- though not necessarily
CPAN Testers output.

a) Configure CPAN::Reporter to use the Test::Reporter::Transport::File
transport -- this will save reports into a directory

b) Run CPAN::Reporter::Smoker -- this will smoke test all of CPAN in
reverse order of upload

c) Install alpha M::B

d) Change directory for output

e) Run CPAN::Reporter::Smoker again

f) Compare output in the two directories.

This would be better if I finally updated CPAN::Reporter::Smoker to
take an arbitrary list of distributions instead of just working
backwards through CPAN and if you had a list of distributions with
Build.PL.

-- David