Re: How big should test reports be?

2010-04-25 Thread Bill Birthisel
It would work for "Pass" reports. But if there is a failure, authors would like to see as much as possible. -bill On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 14:44 -0400, David Golden wrote: > I'd like to impose a consistent size limitation on build/test output > in reports. Unless I hear differently, I'm planning to

Re: Is a CPAN testers release reasonable?

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Birthisel
There is also the problem of installing on a perl release that predates Devel::AssertOS. Win32::SerialPort works fine on 5.6.0 (actually version 0.19 worked fine on 5.003 - but I no longer have a test bed for that). I will add the $^O test directly and bail from Makefile.PL if it fails (with the r

Is a CPAN testers release reasonable?

2010-04-17 Thread Bill Birthisel
I am the author of the Win32::SerialPort module. As one would expect from the name, it only runs properly on Win32. So the last update generated several "false" failures. The next update will add a $^O test and fix the prerequisites to address those. So far, I have not had any complaints from user