Sisyphus
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:34:47 -0700
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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At least for CPAN -- I think this is as simple as just *exiting* from a Makefile.PL with an exit value of 0. CPAN::Reporter considers that "success" and does not issue a FAIL report, but then CPAN.pm notices that no Makefile was created and refuses to continue into make or test phases. I just released CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-PLExit to CPAN to confirm this behavior. if CPANPLUS has similar behavior to CPAN/CPAN::Reporter, then when the smokers get it, I shouldn't see any test reports for it at all.
I don't know whether you're getting reports or not, but at http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-PLExit-1.00/ there are already 6 "FAIL" reports.Whether they'll ever be viewable via the "View" link on that page is also problematical. At the time I uploaded Math::MPC, I also uploaded a new version of Math::GMPq (version 0.11). There are a couple of "genuine" FAILures with that module, and those FAILures have been viewable from the "View" link at http://search.cpan.org/~sisyphus/Math-GMPq-0.11/ for a few days now. However the "View" link at
http://search.cpan.org/~sisyphus/Math-MPC-0.45/ still reveals nothing. Cheers,Rob