Christian Soeller wrote:
> 
> On 9/11/2009, at 4:08 AM, Chris Marshall wrote:
>>
>> Also, be sure you don't have another copy of PDL in your @INC
>> when you are running the tests as that can result in mysterious
>> and highly confusing failures...
>
> 
> This is a really *glaring* weakness of the current testing environment 
> (which I have run foul of myself). Is PDL the only large installation 
> suffering from this?
> How can one fix this? Are CPAN testers potentially affected?

The cleanest way might be to add a utility function to PDL::Core::Devel
that would check the current @INC minus the just built PDL libraries
for a needed module.  It probably does not affect CPAN testers as much
because they usually start from a clean environment and build from
scratch most of the time.

> If somebody were to work on improving stability and installability this 
> would have to be high on the agenda.

It should be low hanging fruit.  We should probably ask on the
CPAN testers or perl modules list for suggestions as well.

--Chris

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