>>>>> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:13:57 +0100, "Giuseppe G." >>>>> <g.gall...@sms.ed.ac.uk> said:
> Hi, > I'm contacting you with reference to your testing activity on the > module specified in the subject. This is my first module and I'm still > a beginner so apologies if this is not the right way to go about > solving this. > I tried to contact the tester directly using the email obtained from > the "FIND A TESTER" service, to no avail. > Thank you for taking the time to test my module. In all cases, the > results are UNKNOWN because the tester does not have some prerequisite > software and the perl Makefile.PL fails. http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes There are the howtos for how to deal with missing prerequisites. Short answer: you do not die, you exit with 0 and write no Makefile. > My question: how to contact the testers and tell them to either > (a) install required prerequisite modules prior to testing > (b) refrain from testing the module altogether in the impossibility of > doing (a) I think you do so here in this forum. -- andreas