Hi. In chasing a bug flushed out on my smoker, Peter Flanigan temporarily added an "exit 0" to Makefile.PL if @INC matched my particular unique path to perl.
That's obviously a quick hack, but in subsequent discussion, he asked whether it would be possible to put the tester's ID in an environment variable so it would be easily to selectively bypass CPAN Testers reporting for particular testers. I could see that being useful, for example, on a Build.PL only distribution for a tester with an old CPANPLUS that doesn't deal well with M::B. Or for a tester that has an obviously broken perl installation (e.g. files deleted or locally patched). Since we already set AUTOMATED_TESTING to a true value, I thought that might be a natural place to put it. My question to the group: * Is flagging tester in an environment variable a good idea? Bad idea? * AUTOMATED_TESTING or something else? * Let smokers set their own ID for this? (more work, less standard) Or use the email "From" line? (automatic and consistent) The latter has potential spam issues since the email addresses will wind up visible in the environmental variables section of the report. On the plus side, it makes it easier to see who sent a report in the NNTP web interface when the From line is obscured. -- David
