On 22/12/2007, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 2007 3:52 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me rephrase then. > > > > I feel dirty writing tests just to trip up testers who can't set up working > > testing environments. > > Is this really a problem? Let me flip this around -- I get very few > problems of this sort for CPAN::Reporter, which is probably the thing > submitting these reports from Windows anyway, since CPANPLUS doesn't > (didn't?) run there. > > So what exactly is it that you're doing that has trouble with spaces > in path names? There may be things that would allow you to easily > avoid the failures instead of complaining about testers with "broken" > setups. > > Send me some test report URLs and I'd be happy to take a look.
I recall that a while back an effort was made to eliminate all the main causes of problems from whitespace in filenames and paths. So its possible that this is an old issue and those with newer builds don't see it. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
