On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:14 PM, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That seems…annoying. I'll grant you that you need to be able to distinguish
> real failures from dependency failures, but surely there's a better way, no?
No, there really isn't -- for the reasons I already described in
On Monday 01 September 2008 17:22:48 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-01 23:20]:
> > surely there's a better way, no?
> Ask the maintainers of M::B, EU::MM and M::I to all export a
> `halt` function that does just this? That would also provide
> a conve
* David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-01 23:20]:
> surely there's a better way, no?
Ask the maintainers of M::B, EU::MM and M::I to all export a
`halt` function that does just this? That would also provide
a convenient spot in the respective modules’ docs for related
CPAN Testers arcana,
On Sep 1, 2008, at 05:17, David Golden wrote:
if (!$dot_version) {
warn "You must install the graphviz package..." and exit 0;
}
That seems…annoying. I'll grant you that you need to be able to
distinguish real failures from dependency failures, but surely there's
a better way, no?
* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-01 20:40]:
> with a long history
That is the problem, isn’t it?
There are only two kinds of systems: working systems that are
complex and grew out of simple ones and non-working systems.
Then again, we know that complexity does not follow simplicity,
b
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the CPANAuthorNotes page comprehensive about all of the special magic a
> CPAN author has to know to mollify cranky testers? That is, if someone
> wonderful wanted to abstract all of the mechanisms away behind a nice, easy
>
# from David Golden
# on Monday 01 September 2008 05:13:
>I'm not going to add support for "STOP:" just to save you 12
> characters.
Well I hope it isn't all about me. I happen to think that putting a
distribution on CPAN is far more error-prone and mysterious than
necessary and comes with a l
On Monday 01 September 2008 05:17:56 David Golden wrote:
> You need:
>
> if (!$dot_version) {
> warn "You must install the graphviz package..." and exit 0;
> }
Is the CPANAuthorNotes page comprehensive about all of the special magic a
CPAN author has to know to mollify cranky testers? T
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Joe McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I really meant you can die on missing non-perl perequisites (e.g. a
>> library, a binary, a database, etc.).
>
> Yeah, I do that for GraphViz::Data::Structure (for graphviz) - and I still
> get FAILs. So how does one get rou
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Eric Wilhelm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>It has positives and negatives. The parsing is done out of the
>>combined STDOUT and STDERR of the entire command. For tests, that
>>includes all TAP and test output. The more text parsing we do e.g.
>>your "STOP: ",
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