Hi,
On 10/21/2011 10:42 PM, ext Jeremiah Foster wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Lauri T. Aarnio
Unfortunately corner cases matter, too. "Most" is not enough, if there
are hundreds or thousands of packets to compile.
A corner case is not "most", it is usually a singleton or a handful. I
still think this is a remarkable example of a corner case, a perl
module with XS that is a build dependency because it provides an SSL
library!
The problem with corner-cases is that although a *specific* corner-case
is rare (like the above one), the number of all corner-cases in a large
enough set of packages can be quite significant, they change when
packages are updated etc.
That's why you would want something that deals (correctly) with these
kind of issues, and also why coming up with a generic solution for them
requires years. :-)
- Eero
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