On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:14:37PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > 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 >
Yes, I have been keeping out of the bun fight. > 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 can discard these now if need be with some tweaks to CPANPLUS::Dist::YACSmoke ( which is what I am predominately using now for smoking ). > 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). > But, yes, it would be nice to persuade Jos to fix it. He welcomes patches. That behaviour, I am guessing, is in CPANPLUS::Dist ( or CPANPLUS::Dist::Base ) somewhere. Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ==========================
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