On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 09:09:07PM +0100, Barbie wrote: > Having said that I wonder whether the installer/smokebot is at fault > with the non-Win32 testing. In CPANPLUS there is a specific check to > flag any OS specific distributions as NA if on another OS. In these > FAIL cases they are all running CPAN-Reporter-1.1711 and variants of > CPAN-1.94XX. Is there a similar check in CPAN/CPAN-Reporter? > > See RELEVANT_TEST_RESULT in CPANPLUS::Internals::Constants::Report.pm > [1] for an example. > > [1] > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.9003/lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants/Report.pm
That's a *really* bad way of checking. If I'm reading it correctly, then it will flag as OS-specific the following hypothetical modules: Date::Holidays::AU::Darwin (public holidays specific to Darwin, Australia) Test::Glob::Like::Win32 (fake up Win32-style globbing, whatever the hell that might be) etc It's also missing Haiku, Dragonfly BSD, MirOS, Midnight BSD and maybe some others that I've forgotten. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Perl: the only language that makes Welsh look acceptable
