I believe you actually need to put a file into it and include it in
the MANIFEST, otherwise, an empty directory doesn't get included in
the distribution.

David

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> G'day Perl-QA,
>
> I'm afraid I'm rather confused about the CPANTS "has_example" metric.  The
> remedy is listed as:
>
>        Add a directory matching the regex (bin|scripts?|ex|eg|examples?|
>        samples?|demos?) ... to your distribution that includes some
>        scripts showing one or more use-cases of the distribution.
>
> At least one of my modules has an examples directory, and yet is still
> failing the test:
>
>        http://cpants.perl.org/dist/kwalitee/IPC-System-Simple
>
>        http://search.cpan.org/src/PJF/IPC-System-Simple-0.13/examples/
>
> Is CPANTS looking for something besides the directory, or have I hit
> something particularly odd here?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>        Paul
>
> P.S. IPC::System::Simple 0.14 is going to CPAN in the next hour, but I'm not
> changing its examples directory, so I expect the problem to continue to
> persist.
>
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