On Friday 05 September 2008 16:52:05 brian d foy wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chromatic
> > If I could see somehow that my distribution implicitly runs on > > Perl 5.001 (or explicitly runs only on 5.11.0), or that it has no > > Makefile.PL or Build.PL, or any of the other dozens of packaging quirks > > that can cause problems, I could fix them before uploading and before > > triggering a wave of testing. > That's what Module::Release does, and since the QA Hackathon in Oslo, > it even tests under multiple perls. It can check kwalitee (or not), or > anything else that you like. Hm. What's your thought on turning that into something which a Module::Build or ExtUtils::MakeMaker plugin could run on ./Build distcheck or make distcheck? I'm happy to write the Module::Build plugin, if anyone else might find this idea useful. (I'd very happily explain to new CPAN contributors the value of running those commands against distributions before upload.) -- c
