On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:27:17AM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> The problem is that Devel::AssertOS is a recent thing and many authors
> are still unaware of it. A number of namespaces (Win32, Solaris, Linux,
> Mac) were meant to specifically target a particular OS. As such
> authors often gave CPAN Testers a *REALLY* hard time if they submitted
> fail reports for those dists, when tested on other OSes. Maybe that
> isn't the case anymore, but the expectation is that those dists are
> still meant for a specific OS.
The heuristic would make more sense if it checked for *those namespaces*
then. In which case these would go through just fine on, say, Solaris:
* Date::Holidays::AU::Darwin
* Test::Glob::Like::Win32
but these would be blocked:
* Darwin::SomethingAppleSpecific
* Win32::SomethingWindowsy
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