CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-10 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans 
I am getting lots of test reports from machines that don't have
Module::Build installed, and so they all ultimately do something like
this:

  [ERROR] [Sun Mar 11 00:31:43 2007] This module requires 'Module::Build'
  and 'CPANPLUS::Dist::Build' to be installed, but you don't have it! Will fall 
back to 
  'CPANPLUS::Dist::MM', but might not be able to install!
  [MSG] [Sun Mar 11 00:31:43 2007] No 'Makefile.PL' found - attempting to 
generate one

This then leads them on to massive failures such as:

  Failed 5/5 test scripts. 47/47 subtests failed.

These aren't very useful. If we were to discount these from my
cpantesters page, I suddenly lose quite a lot of red, and the actual
failures become a lot easier to see.

Is there anything I as the module's author, can do about these? Short of
getting CPANPLUS to not bother sending a report if it tried to hack up a
Makefile.PL anyway and failed it, my current best plan is just to ignore
them. Which doesn't seem very helpful, and makes it hard for me to see
what the genuine bugs are.

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Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Dolan 

On Mar 10, 2007, at 10:04 PM, David Golden wrote:


On 3/10/07, Paul LeoNerd Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I am getting lots of test reports from machines that don't have
Module::Build installed, and so they all ultimately do something like

Is there anything I as the module's author, can do about these?  
Short of


(a) Use only Makefile.PL

(b) Include Module::Build explicitly as a prerequisite of your module

(c) Ignore test reports from CPANPLUS


(d) create_makefile_pl = 'traditional'

Chris

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