[Slightly OT] Interpreting cpan-testers failures

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Carman
I apologize for the somewhat OT posting, but I need some help. I uploaded a new version of a module (Tk-DiffText version 0.18) to CPAN and have been getting failure reports from CPAN-Testers ever since. The common theme is this:

Re: [Slightly OT] Interpreting cpan-testers failures

2008-03-21 Thread Shawn Boyette ☠
It's been a lng time since I've made a zipfile, but I seem to remember that you had to explicitly tell the old DOS PKZIP to retain directory structure. That is: its default was to flatten everything down to a simple pool of files. This was, however, forever ago. Have you tried unpacking your

Re: [Slightly OT] Interpreting cpan-testers failures

2008-03-21 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Shawn Boyette ☠ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried unpacking your own distro to see what it looks like? More to the point, unpack your distro with the CPAN shell: $ cpan cpan look Tk::DiffText That will drop you into the directory that CPAN has