We've all seen the situation or seen the flamewars on it: * CPANPLUS-based tester * CPANPLUS::Dist::Build not installed * Distribution only has Build.PL * CPANPLUS generates a Makefile.PL (without dependencies) * tests fail
This is obviously a dependency problem, not a distribution problem and it's deterministic so if we can't fix it, I think we need to filter it. I propose writing a patch for CPANPLUS to eliminate the generation of Makefile.PL in this situation. If after a "reasonable" period of time, we can't convince Jos to accept the patch and release a new version of CPANPLUS, then I propose to patch Test::Reporter to detect the situation and error message and to discard the report (possibly with an error). Thoughts? Counter-proposals? David
