On Sep 3, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Slaven Rezic wrote:
Why does cpan testers have to ask authors to do non standard things
just to play nice with them ?
Because in this installation/testing phase there can be at least the
results PASS, FAIL, and NA (I am not sure if UNKNOWN can happen here).
Unfortunately the build script can only return a non-zero or zero exit
status. There's no protocol about the remaining values (1-255) to
differentiate the status.
Think of the exit status as a flag whether a FAIL report should be
sent or not.
I disagree. When CPAN testers was setup, a FAIL was sent if the tests
failed. If the Makefile.PL does not complete then you cannot know if
the tests fail or not, hence an UNKNOWN situation
Graham.
