>>>>> 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

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