Jos Boumans wrote: > Hmm, I hope this doesn't mean you plan on removing the 'non-zero exit status > on failed make test'.. that's be a real PITA for automated installers...
No, that is done by Test::Harness dying on test failure. >> Neither CPAN nor CPANPLUS are under any obligation to parse their output. >> The solution is to get authors to stop using test.pl. > > It does of course generate questions when the human sees 'make test > failed' on > his screen and CPAN/CPANPLUS say 'make test passed, installing'. Is there > anything > we could use to DTRT thing here, or is it time for Yet Another Disclaimer? Contact all the authors making use of it and suggest they switch to .t files. Maybe I could throw a warning into MakeMaker. Also a kwalitee check sounds like a good idea "not_only_test.pl" or something.
