Dear Craig, for what it's worth, I have just installed "mm" on "my" machine (actually one of Ralf Engelschall's machines, by happenstance - Ralf is the author of "mm"!) running FreeBSD 7.2-stable and installed IPC::MMA successfully with CPAN.pm (passed all tests). You should see the CPAN::Reporter report on CPAN::Testers soon.
Hope this helps. :-) Best regards, Steffen Beyer 2009/11/4 <cr...@animalhead.com> > Hello CPAN testers, > > About a month ago I asked on the CPAN authors list why my module IPC::MMA > wasn't getting more test reports, despite the fact that I had reworked its > Makefile.PL to output a message about the need for a required C library that > I don't have the right to include with IPC::MMA. David Golden sent a nice > response: > > Most automated smoke testing will just quietly exit and continue. The >> testers will never see the prompt. This is generally how automated testers >> like it (though there are exceptions). Stopping at every Nth module to >> figure out how to resolve someone's custom dependency takes extra time that >> donating some CPU cycles to the testing effort does not. >> >> NOTE --> "exit 0" means that *no* report is sent. Not even an UNKNOWN. >> This is just like what happens with Perl prerequisites. If a prerequisite >> can't be satisfied, then no report is sent. >> >> I think the most effective thing that will lead to more test reports is >> asking people to install libmm. That's best done via personal appeal on the >> cpan-testers-discuss or on #cpantesters-discuss on irc.perl.org. That >> means work for someone who maintains multiple virtual machines, so ask >> nicely. ;-) >> > > > Asking nicely is something I don't have much experience with, but this is > my attempt. > > The mm library, which is a non-CPAN prerequisite for IPC::MMA, is quite > easy to download and install from http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/mm/ > > Almost certainly, none of you will have any problem with downloading and > installing mm. mm only applies to Unix/Linux systems, so Windows-based > testers should ignore this message. > > A few days from now I will upload a new IPC::MMA 0.58001, that will be > available to your test systems in the near future. The main change is that > it uses /dev/urandom rather than /dev/random for testing, so that it should > run its tests faster than previous versions. > > So, might it be possible that you could please find time sometime in your > busy schedule to install the mm library on your test system(s)? > Historically only two testers have had mm on their systems, now 3 including > David Golden. > > One or two residual problems remain with the current 0.58, that may or not > be the fault of my module. > If you could please install mm, the test results would be very helpful to > provide additional data on these. > > Thank you very much, > Craig MacKenna > Los Gatos, CA > >
