----- Original Message ----- > From: Buddy Burden <barefootco...@gmail.com> > >G uys, > > I'm getting CPAN Tester failures that look like this: > > # STDOUT is: > # ok 1 # SKIP symlink_target_is doesn't work on systems without symlinks! > # > # not: > # ok 1 # skip symlink_target_is doesn't work on systems without symlinks! > # > # as expected > > and, in case it doesn't jump out at you what the problem is (I had to > stare at it 4 or 5 times before I caught it), it's the capitalization > of "skip" (or "SKIP", as the case may be). Now, these > failures are a > minority, and the trend I'm seeing is that the failures all seem to > come from Test::More 1.005000_002, whereas the passes all seem to come > from versions pre 1.x. Now, I've never really used > Test::Builder::Tester before (I've previously used Test::Tester), but > I got co-maint on this module (Test::File), and that's what it uses, > and it seems to work pretty well ... except for this one thing. So I > don't really want to change it, and anyway I'm sure I'm not the only > person who is/will be seeing this sort of problem.
Hi Buddy, I'm not sure what's going on here. You've mentioned the Test::More, Test::Builder::Tester, Test::Tester and Test::File. I don't know exactly what is causing the problem you have with your tests, but if you check the TAP::Parser::Grammar (https://metacpan.org/module/TAP::Parser::Grammar) you'll see that the SKIP (and TODO) directives are case-insensitive. Thus, both SKIP and skip should be fine. If something is marking that as a failure, it's probably ignoring case-sensitivity for directives or it's expecting an exact text match. In any event, I can't tell how to reproduce the issue from the plethora of modules you've listed. Can you send a small code example of a test failure? Cheers, Ovid -- Live and work overseas - http://overseas-exile.blogspot.com/ Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl/
