I would also like to point out to the CPAN Testers Matrix page, where it's much easier to separate "useful" from "useless" reports. See
http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=OpenOffice-OODoc&maxver= or just follow the link from the distribution's page at search.cpan.org or kobesearch.cpan.org. Regards, Slaven "David Golden" <[email protected]> writes: > 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 >>> >> >> -- Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de tkrevdiff - graphical display of diffs between revisions (RCS, CVS or SVN) http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tkrevdiff
