David Golden wrote:
Hi, Martin.
There was a recent "policy change" on grades -- FAIL is now *only* for
actual test failures. Build failures are graded 'UNKNOWN'. Some
authors had complained that it's hard to differentiate between actual
test failures and build failures that might simply be due to a poorly
configured Perl or CPAN toolchain.
Thanks for the clarification.
This example is a great one -- because of the EU::MM problem, your
module doesn't compile. By grading that UNKNOWN, you can choose to
pay attention or ignore it and focus your energies on FAIL.
This was hashed out in some massive threads on perl-qa a couple weeks
ago. As it turns out, Graham Barr weighed in to say that this new
approach was the original intent behind the grades.
I was attempting to read as much of that thread as possible to keep up
with developments but as you say it was a "massive" thread and I guess I
missed the final decision.
You'll still see some build failures as FAIL until everyone upgrades
CPAN::Reporter and CPANPLUS. The latter is fixed only in a dev
version 0.85_04 and not everyone will upgrade until that goes to a
full release.
I hope it isn't seen as too impolite to not create a new thread here for
a small question but I am running CPAN::Reporter::Smoker here and this
is new setup and I've not done this before. Is it possible for me to set
the edit report before sending flag default to yes (as it is when I've
running CPAN::Reporter) so I can see the reports before sending them
until I gain confidence that the smoker is doing the right thing? I was
rather hoping to do this rather than change the transport to file and
bulk send later. The smoker is running in a terminal I can monitor until
I have more confidence.
Martin
-- David
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Martin J. Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Here
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/09/msg2285905.html
you will find a submitted test result of UNKNOWN which totally failed
compilation. Is that right? Would you not normally class this as a FAIL?
BTW, the reason it fails compilation is that it is strawberry perl, which
sets makepl_arg to include INC and ExtUtils::MakeMaker cannot override (or
add to) and INC added to the command line (so Makefile.PL cannot add the
path to the DBI header files).
Martin
