[PREP] Last Rounds for Parrot 0.9.1

[Reini Urban]

2009/3/8 Allison Randal <allison at parrot.org>:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>> Skipped tests are less useful than passing todo tests.
>
> No, a release should never have test failures or passing todo tests.

Sure. But for making a release I have to know in advance which tests
are passing and which not. To be able to fix the code or adjust the
tests.
Without test results on foreign platforms this is impossible.

It was not done for years, so we have the 64bit mess now. We even
suspect that the 64bit writer violates the specs. See pbc_checker

In order to get a release with no passing native_pbc TODO's and
failing tests the platform matrix has to be tested and adjusted
accordingly.
And this will not happen in a branch and not by sending patches around.
People are only sending smokes on trunk and people are not producing
native_pbc files without begging them.

Andy e.g. only tested releases.
-- 
Reini Urban