----- Original Message -----
From: "David Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Graham Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "chromatic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: I Want to Believe in the CPAN (was Re: cpantesters - why
exit(0)?)
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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If the Makefile.PL does not complete then you cannot know if the
tests fail or not, hence an UNKNOWN situation
That may have been the original intent, but it wasn't how CPANPLUS
implemented it, apparently, and that was what I took as a reference
standard when I wrote CPAN::Reporter.
I tried to find the original post where Graham expressed the view quoted
above ... but failed to do so.
Seems to me that Graham's argument also applies to situations where 'perl
Makefile.PL' went fine, but the 'make' process failed. That is, if the make
process fails "then you cannot know if the tests fail or not, hence an
UNKNOWN situation".
Cheers,
Rob
