Re: Fixing the damage caused by has_test_pod

2007-07-29 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Christopher H. Laco # on Sunday 29 July 2007 08:00 am: >It's rare, but I've been in the situation where >for some reason (mistmatching dist requirements, failed upgrades, bad >dist packages, broken troff, etc) the creation of man pages/html from >the dist pod fails outright. That reinforce

Re: Fixing the damage caused by has_test_pod

2007-07-29 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Adam Kennedy # on Saturday 28 July 2007 01:52 pm: >Unfortunately, the pod coverage tests requires the module to be >compiled, so CPANTS can never safely run it, and thus can never run it >at all. :) No. *Pod::Coverage* requires the module to be compiled. Testing the coverage of pod does

Re: Fixing the damage caused by has_test_pod

2007-07-29 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Adam Kennedy wrote: > For background on this email, see the following entry in my journal. > > http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/33893 > > Lately, I've noticed a series of modules that are cargo-culting the use > of test_pod and test_pod_coverage in their tests. > > Not only are we seeing spuri