Re: How to report missing external dependencies correctly?

2010-06-15 Thread Lutz Gehlen
Hello David, thanks a lot for your quick and helpful reply. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:57:28PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Lutz Gehlen wrote: > > My questions are: > > 1) Do you think that this is in general a good approach to solve my > > problem. > > I think t

Re: How to report missing external dependencies correctly?

2010-06-15 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Lutz Gehlen wrote: > My questions are: > 1) Do you think that this is in general a good approach to solve my > problem. I think they are quite reasonable. You might also find the development version of Devel::CheckLib to be an alternative as as a more direct way

How to report missing external dependencies correctly?

2010-06-15 Thread Lutz Gehlen
Hello everybody, I am developing the module SVG::Rasterize, which uses the Perl bindings of the Pango C library. I have got CPAN testers fail reports that I could track down to the following problem: The testing system had the right version of the Pango Perl module (>=1.220), but a too old version

Re: How am I wrongly using Math::BigInt?

2010-06-15 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Paul Bennett # on Sunday 13 June 2010 14:36: >As you'll be able to tell (with some digging), the tests that are > failing   are one or more of the tests named > /01-try-.*/. These tests are all sanity-checks put in > place to test the underlying modules and/or libraries that my module > its