* L Walsh <cpan-tes...@tlinx.org> [2016-03-04 23:40]: > I tried checking for the OS and BAILING out before running the test, > but BAIL OUT just causes a fail.
That’s as it’s supposed to be. Normally, when you run a module’s tests, all test programs are run, and all tests within each are run. BAIL_OUT is just a way to to abort the current test program, as well as tell the test harness “don’t bother running the others” – typically used when some test failure implies that all the other tests will fail also. > Isn't BAILOUT the supported way to abort due to a due to missing > pre-reqs or is there another function I should be using? Generally this sort of thing is done in Makefile.PL, rather than the tests. If you exit 0 before a Makefile is generated, then no report will be sent. You can also die with the magic string “OS unsupported” (has to be written exactly like that), in which case an NA report will be sent (rather than a FAIL (or no report at all)). However, > I'm trying to specify a pre-req to not get superfluous errors in my > tests -- specifically, I need to have the "Windows" OS module be >= > 6.0.0. … if this really were a module, it should be sufficient to just declare it as a prereq with that minimum version. (I don’t see such a module on CPAN… did you mean “module” metaphorically here?) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
