David Golden wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It would be nice if NA's included the reason for it being an NA, that being
the full Makefile/Build.PL output just like if it failed. I don't see any
harm in that and it would help identify accidental NAs.
There is only supposed to be one reason for NA -- Perl or platform not
supported. Anything else is a bug in the reporting software.
See http://cpantest.grango.org/wiki/Reports
For reference, CPAN::Reporter detects NA in any of three ways:
* explicit check for unsatisfied 'perl' in 'requires' section of prerequisites
* parsing for "OS Unsupported" or "No support for OS"
* parsing for error messages from code like "use 5.008" or from "our"
being used in $VERSION strings prior to 5.005
It's that last one that concerns me, it's a bit heuristicy and I've been
things be declared NA that should have alerted the author to a backwards
compat problem.
CPAN::Reporter also includes PL output for tests that fail or are NA
in the PL stage. CPANPLUS (which Chris uses) does not -- or at least
not by default as far as I know.
Ahh, I see.
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