in reply to Test coverage and canned dog food.

Personally, I would favor "putting a 100kb+ binary blob into the distribution", because it has the highest likelihood to actually work for an extended period of time, and having to download in the order of 100k more isn't such a big issue these days.

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Re^2: Test coverage and canned dog food.
by DrHyde (Prior) on Mar 03, 2010 at 11:36 UTC
    Agreed. And you wouldn't be the first to do this either. eg, take a look at http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/EXIFTOOL/Image-ExifTool-8.10/t/images/ or http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JV/eps2png-2.7/t/.