Moin, On Saturday 18 March 2006 03:39, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Audrey Tang wrote: > > On 3/17/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Do you mean that it's valuable only for the author to run (perhaps > >> during disttest) and rarely useful for the user to run during > >> installation? > > > > Aye. Though I can imagine users who'd like to run them as well... > > This is after all not that different from the Test::Pod situation, in > > it that it verifies integrity of the distribution and not the > > module's function itself. > > > > Audrey > > For a user, how does signature.t act differently to the built-in > signature checking of CPAN.pm. > > What does it add? (apart from hung blocky non-blocking connections to > the keyserver on Win32) :(
It adds the annoyance that a local test suddenly wants to connect to the outside world. Thats fun, when the outside world is not available... Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Sat Mar 18 09:33:06 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. Kernel Panik is here! - http://ubersoft.net/kpanic/
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