David Cantrell wrote:
David Golden wrote:
What's a clean, generic mechanism for a distribution to signal "please
check this dependency and abort if it's not satisfied"?
die("wrong platform, you didn't read the documentation\n")
unless(
$Config::capabilities{filesystem}{casesensitive} &&
...
);
Well, I really meant how to signal to CPANSmoke, not the user. I don't
really expect CPANSmoke to read the docs -- which is the problem.
That said, the notion of Config may be a decent next step as a sane way
of requesting certain prerequisites like OS or features like threading.
config_prereq => {
keyname => string or regex
}
For example:
config_prereq => {
osname => qr/linux|bsd/,
useithreads => 'define'
}
That doesn't solve the external library problem, but it would be a next
step that Makefile.PL/Build.PL/CPANSmoke might be able to support for a
bit more granularity as to what consistutes an N/A on a smoke test.
David
