# from David Golden
# on Sunday 21 October 2007 20:18:
>Your META.yml says your module needs "Foo::Bar 1.23". Someone doesn't
>have Foo::Bar installed. Your tests fail. Did they fail because
>Foo::Bar was missing? Or because one or more tests failed.
Did we try and fail to install Foo::Bar?
On 10/21/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is it "die 'OS unsupported'" in one case and "exit 0 unless happy()"
> in the other? Seems like they should both be dying.
Parsing for "OS unsupported" or "No support for OS" was introduced as
a heuristic into CPANPLUS a couple years ago
On 10/21/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >If a
> >specified prerequisite (from META.yml, Makefile.PL or Build.PL) is not
> >satisfied, failing reports are discarded. (Passing reports are still
> >sent, however.)
>
> Really? Seems like that should report "PREREQ_FAIL" or something.
Y
Hi all,
Since we're discussing Devel::CheckLib, I wonder if this falls into the
same category.
Why is it "die 'OS unsupported'" in one case and "exit 0 unless happy()"
in the other? Seems like they should both be dying.
This one is more like "requires perl built-a-certain-way". I'm
consider
* demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-21 16:50]:
> A) The contents of META.yml is not well or widely documented.
> That META-spec-blead in the Module::Build source code
> repository does mention it does not make it well publicized nor
> documented. About the only people who would know about it ar
# from David Golden
# on Sunday 21 October 2007 14:39:
>>>e.g. prerequisite failures are now just
>>>discarded (at least by CPAN::Reporter).
>>
>> Really? Seems like that should report "PREREQ_FAIL" or something.
>> If it is just discarded, the author will be unaware of a
>> non-installable cond
Hello David,
I should have answered your mail earlier, but I keep forgetting things..
David Cantrell wrote:
NB: this has been sent to several mailing lists. Watch those replies!
Dave Golden and I have been hacking on Devel::CheckLib, which
should be
on a CPAN mirror near you soon. It's
On 10/21/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> # from David Golden
> # on Sunday 21 October 2007 08:30:
>
> >So, gradually, the more easily determined failure paths have being
> >pruned out to just cut down on the noise. Ones that are easy to
> >automate have been -- e.g. prerequisite failu
# from David Golden
# on Sunday 21 October 2007 08:30:
>So, gradually, the more easily determined failure paths have being
>pruned out to just cut down on the noise. Ones that are easy to
>automate have been -- e.g. prerequisite failures are now just
>discarded (at least by CPAN::Reporter).
Real
# from David Golden
# on Sunday 21 October 2007 08:30:
>As I see it, the root of
>"the problem" is that there are many ways for things to fail, and
>authors tend to object to getting "FAIL" grades (in big capital
>letters) for things outside their control.
It would be nice if the reports were som
demerphq wrote:
> On 10/19/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]:
>>> How does one use this then? Where is it documented?
>> http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html#configure_requires
>
> So how do i use this with MakeMake
On 10/21/07, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> B) Absent a documented way to set this in MakeMaker, suggesting that
> it is the appropriate solution to the problem intended to be solved by
> Devel::CheckLib seems out of place at best, and presumptive at worst.
>
> As an aside, it seems to me th
On 10/20/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 23:10]:
> > On 10/19/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]:
> > > > How does one use this then? Where is it documented?
> > >
> > > http://
On Oct 19, 2007, at 6:00 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
Dave Golden and I have been hacking on Devel::CheckLib, which
should be
on a CPAN mirror near you soon. It's similar to Devel::CheckOS, in
that
it will let module authors specify dependencies which aren't just
other
perl modules - if they
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