David Cantrell wrote:

> Let's take my module File::Find::Rule::Permissions as an example.  I
> know it doesn't work on Windows, but not having access to a Windows
> machine, I have *no idea* what $^O should be on that platform,
> especially for any odd Windows environments like Cygwin or WinCE.  I
> also know it doesn't work on VMS.

perlport to the rescue:
  http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perlport.pod#PLATFORMS

> Oh, and to the list of fields at
> http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-new.html how about adding
> 'requires_application'.  Mac::iTunes::Applescript has an obvious
> prerequisite.  The module Net::P0fq that I am slowly working on requires
> a running copy of p0f.

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-P0f/

Maybe we should join our forces here :)

On a side note, the tests would just check for the availability of p0f.
If it's not present, just skip the tests that require it.

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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni

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