I took over the management of CPANDeps earlier this year (see CPANdeps end of life) and have just been alerted to some tests coming in from an Android smoker. We haven't seen any of these before.

I would like to ask your opinion on whether, for the purposes of seeing test stats by O/S, Android results should be counted as Linux or should have their own, separate category. They are currently showing up separately in the matrix (eg. http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Math-Prime-Util) but that is probably by default rather than the result of a conscious choice. CPANDeps will be set up to count them separately for now as it will be much simpler to merge them later if required rather than split them out.

This isn't so much the general gnarly question of "Is Android Linux?" but more "Do you want/expect Android tests to be distinct from Linux ones in the stats?" - thanks for any thoughts.

In reply to Classifying Android (OT?) by Anonymous Monk

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