2010/7/9 Serguei Trouchelle <s...@cpan.org>: > Torsten Förtsch wrote: > >>>> So, why is a perl 5.8.7 trying to test a module that states to require >>>> at least 5.8.8? > >>> It isn't. The result is NA, not FAIL. > >> So I am to expect NAs for perl versions less than required? > > Yes, it means that your module is not available on certain perl > version/platform. > This result is produced during Makefile.PL/Build.PL stage, so nothing is > actually tested.
I found while iterating over the Alien::Judy distribution that an NA can often be a masked FAIL so fwiw, I think possibly reports for these shouldn't even be reported at all or as something even more "Not Applicable" than an NA report. Josh
