RE: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Barbie
On 07 April 2005 23:02 Ken Williams wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
Chris Dolan wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names (e.g. Solaris:: or Win32::) but

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
David Cantrell wrote: Let's take my module File::Find::Rule::Permissions as an example. I know it doesn't work on Windows, but not having access to a Windows machine, I have *no idea* what $^O should be on that platform, especially for any odd Windows environments like Cygwin or WinCE. I

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Robert Rothenberg
Same here. On 08/04/2005 20:02 Ken Williams wrote: On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: die NA: $reason; Since, at the moment, we're having trouble putting together a system to cover the possible reasons for an NA report let the module author figure it out. Its simple and

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Dolan
On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names (e.g. Solaris:: or Win32::) but that is not always

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-07 Thread Ken Williams
On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names (e.g. Solaris:: or Win32::) but that is not always

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:01:34PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? AFAIK NA reports are issued when a Makefile.PL dies due to a require