On 09 Mar 2010 12:33:44 +0100, Alex Muntada wrote: > > + Mikhael Goikhman <m...@homemail.com>: > > > I think README gives a handful of hints about the package. Anyway, in > > the devel branch (managed under tla, that is mentioned in README too) > > all tests should now pass even without tla or baz installed. > > I.e.: TLA=/bin/false make test > > IIRC, having Makefile.PL exit a non-zero value should make all CPAN > smokers ignore the module (no FAIL nor SKIP). Since it should be > quite straight-forward to check if tla is available on the system > and there's no point on installing Arch module unless tla is > available, failing early in Makefile.PL is a Good Thing, IMHO.
This is a reasonable approach. On the other hand it is a pure perl code that may be installed before installing tla (or its equivalent), and you may even point to different backend installations at run-time. In addition, half of the functionality does not depend on presense of tla. Also, the code has explicit support for perl 5.005, 5.6, 5.8+ and it would be interesting to see whether it is actually true. So the 0.5.2 release from yesterday tries a different approach, to skip the relevant tests with "No functional arch backend" reason. Regards, Mikhael. -- perl -e 'print+chr(64+hex)for+split//,d9b815c07f9b8d1e' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100309142118.gb21...@otaku
