On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:44:05AM -0400, Bill Birthisel wrote: > I am the author of the Win32::SerialPort module. As one would expect > from the name, it only runs properly on Win32. So the last update > generated several "false" failures. The next update will add a $^O test > and fix the prerequisites to address those. > > So far, I have not had any complaints from users. So my question, > especially relevant since there will be a lot of 5.12 testing, is > whether is it considered proper to do a release just to address issues > created for the CPAN testers? (The prior release predated the CPAN > testers so the question never came up).
Actually it doesn't. Check version 0.19 in the drop down ;) However, yes it is worth addressing CPAN Testers reports, but in your case just worth concentrating on the Win32 testing. Having said that I wonder whether the installer/smokebot is at fault with the non-Win32 testing. In CPANPLUS there is a specific check to flag any OS specific distributions as NA if on another OS. In these FAIL cases they are all running CPAN-Reporter-1.1711 and variants of CPAN-1.94XX. Is there a similar check in CPAN/CPAN-Reporter? See RELEVANT_TEST_RESULT in CPANPLUS::Internals::Constants::Report.pm [1] for an example. [1] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9003/lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants/Report.pm Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
