Dear Jean-Marie,
The "NA" grade is defined to means "Not applicable -- not supported on this
platform or perl" -- so an NA result from a 5.6 tester is correct and
informative for anyone curious if your module runs on 5.6.
I'm sorry to hear that you see it as "pollution" -- it is actually a
confirmation of the fact that your module is well-written and is explicit
about the version of Perl it requires, rather than letting a 5.6 user try it
and fail tests instead.
While I encourage you to leave the NA reports alone as useful information,
in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, I will mention that you can avoid having reports
sent in any particular case by using the "exit 0" hack. In this case, put
the following at the top of your Makefile.PL before (or in place of) "use
5.008":
BEGIN { exit 0 if $] < 5.008 }
If you exit with a 0 exit value and do not create a Makefile, then both
CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS will just stop processing and no CPAN Testers report is
sent.
Sincerely,
David Golden
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:37, JMGDOC wrote:
>
> Hi Jean-Marie,
>
> I cc'ed a couple of people who'll know the answers to your questions. :-)
>
> - ask
>
> Hello,
>>
>> I know my question has probably been asked and answered many times but...
>> I regularly see "N/A" automated test results on cpantesters for tests that
>> should never be done. More precisely, while my OpenOffice::OODoc module
>> explicitly requires Perl 5.8, a few tests with Perl 5.6 are published each
>> time I upload a new release. These tests pollute the cpantesters' page
>> with
>> useless and annoying N/As.
>>
>> So, is there a way to prevent a automated test to be executed/published
>> when
>> the requirements are not met ?
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Marie Gouarné (JMGDOC)
>> http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenOffice-OODoc
>>
>
>
