On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Shmuel Fomberg <shmuelfomb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All. > > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a module > but fails to install a dependency, what happens? > > Who should I convince to make such a failure similar to test fail? > Or maybe mark it as failure to all the modules that depend on the failed > module? > > I seek to do it because lately modules feel free to have deep > dependencies, a lot of modules have some small test failure percentage, and > these add up rather quickly. > > It is annoying to try and installed some new-shiny module, just to see > some dep^3 fails testing, and then to start investigating. > Is this need covered by deps.cpandtesters.org? (See http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Test::Trap for a not-entirely-random example.) Eirik
