On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This particular module can NOT be tested automatically, without some > manual configuration. The tests can not automatically determine the > configuration of your AFs infrastructure; you have to tell me. > > Therefore, everytime I post this module, these tests are going to > fail. The same is going to be true for DBD::Sybase, or any of the > RDBMS modules which need to be configured with a data server, and/or > database name. > > Is there a mechanism for telling the automated CPAN testing to skip > this module? I do NOT want to hack the code to make the test skipped > by default, because then unsuspecting administrators who install the > module without reading my documentation will be give a false positive.
You may be interested in how the DBD::Pg test suite works. As you point out, it does need a bit configuration for the tests to run. (In this case, setting a single environment variable usually works). If the environment variable isn't present the tests are skipped. Recently some of the configuration has been automated by using "App::Info". The specific module used in this case is here: http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/App-Info-0.24/lib/App/Info/RDBMS/PostgreSQL.pm Perhaps a helper module like this could simplify the needed configuration in your case as well. Mark
