Re: cpan testers - got no sys/ioctl.ph ?

2007-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Why is it "die 'OS unsupported'" in one case My understanding is that there was already special-case code to support that, but adding loads more bits of magic text would be unwieldy. It would also require everyone to upgrade whenever new magic text appears on the scene, whi

Re: cpan testers - got no sys/ioctl.ph ?

2007-10-21 Thread David Golden
On 10/21/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it "die 'OS unsupported'" in one case and "exit 0 unless happy()" > in the other? Seems like they should both be dying. Parsing for "OS unsupported" or "No support for OS" was introduced as a heuristic into CPANPLUS a couple years ago

cpan testers - got no sys/ioctl.ph ?

2007-10-21 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi all, Since we're discussing Devel::CheckLib, I wonder if this falls into the same category. Why is it "die 'OS unsupported'" in one case and "exit 0 unless happy()" in the other? Seems like they should both be dying. This one is more like "requires perl built-a-certain-way". I'm consider