Questions:
1. How can I find out why a CPAN testers report is "N/A"? I'm getting test
failures on Test::Most which are N/A and I don't know why.
2. To debug the problem, I've rewritten my t/00-load.t to show the version
number of all of the dependencies I specify. Not all CPAN test reports have
this information. Should I bug CPAN reporters to upgrade or something? I
don't know enough about what they do to be sure of the right action here.
More details below, if you're interested.
Cheers,
Ovid
In my Test::Most module, I now have some test code which looks similar to the
following:
use_ok('Test::Most')
or BAIL_OUT("Cannot load Test::Most");
use_ok('Test::Most::Exception')
or BAIL_OUT("Cannot load Test::Most::Exception");
diag("Testing Test::Most $Test::Most::VERSION, Perl $], $^X");
my @dependencies = qw(
Exception::Class
Test::Deep
Test::Differences
Test::Exception
Test::Harness
Test::Simple
Test::Warn
);
foreach my $module (@dependencies) {
use_ok $module or BAIL_OUT("Cannot load $module");
my $version = $module->VERSION;
diag(" $module version is $version");
}
I'm doing this because of this N/A report:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/10/msg2452261.html
http://is.gd/6uf0
That's listing test failures such as:
t/env_bail.........Can't locate object method "todo_start"
via package "Test::Builder" at t/lib/OurTester.pm line 68.
I require Test::Simple 0.82 in both the Makefile.PL and Build.PL files and
todo_start is in the Test::Builder which ships with that. Thus, the above bug
should not occur.
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