On 10/21/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # from David Golden > # on Sunday 21 October 2007 08:30: > > >So, gradually, the more easily determined failure paths have being > >pruned out to just cut down on the noise. Ones that are easy to > >automate have been -- e.g. prerequisite failures are now just > >discarded (at least by CPAN::Reporter). > > Really? Seems like that should report "PREREQ_FAIL" or something. If > it is just discarded, the author will be unaware of a non-installable > condition.
I said "prerequisite failures", not "missing module failures". If a specified prerequisite (from META.yml, Makefile.PL or Build.PL) is not satisfied, failing reports are discarded. (Passing reports are still sent, however.) Failures because a module could not be found (perhaps because it wasn't listed as a prerequisite) is just a normal FAIL. David
