Hi Nigel, I want to bring to your attention some serious issues with your smoker systems that you have been using to submit CPAN Testers reports:
1. there are a very large number of reports (I've received hundreds from you to my distributions alone, and others have received a large quantity as well) where prerequisites that are very clearly specified in Makefile.PL and META.* are not being satisfied. Here is one recent example: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/3cb1d41e-3d45-11e6-9fc5-14bfbd15da07 There was a thread about similar issues on the last year; perhaps you are experiencing one of the itemized problems as well? (YAML, autodie, etc) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/2015/06/msg3650.html 2. the dynamic_config flag in metadata does not appear to be being respected, e.g. in this report: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/9584f7d0-3f0f-11e6-9fc5-14bfbd15da07 The tests are failing because a dynamic prereq has not been satisfied. The t/00-report-prereqs.t test indicates that MYMETA.json was never generated, and only static prereqs were ever read. This is incorrect - dynamic_config => 1 in metadata indicates that Makefile.PL *must be run* to generate MYMETA.json first, and then that file is considered authoritative with respect to prereqs. Hopefully there is enough information in these reports to diagnose the root issue; if not, no doubt the collective wisdom exists on this list. thank you!
