On Fri, 14 May 2004, Barbie wrote:

> On 14 May 2004 15:12 Randy Kobes wrote:
>
> > It might be an idea to adjust the automated testing software
> > so as to ignore testing distributions with names like
> > PPM-some-other-cpan-distribution.tar.gz. These are ppm
> > (binary) packages of distributions (as created, eg, by
> > Module-Build), and thus can't have tests within them.
>
> Having 'PPM' at the front of the name doesn't mean it's a
> PPM package. PPM [1] and PPM-Repositories [2] aren't, as
> well your PPM-Make [3] :)
>
> [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPM/
> [2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPM-Repositories/
> [3] http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPM-Make/

That's true - my comments applied to an archive that had a
name like
   PPM-some-other-cpan-distribution.tar.gz
which is the default name for a PPM archive built
with (a recent) Module-Build (but could in principle be
built by hand). This applies in particular to
PPM-NetStumbler-Wap-0.04, which just contains a
blib/ directory, but as Module-Build becomes more
popular, this problem will surface with others, and
labelling them as failures is misleading.

-- 
best regards,
randy

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