Re: CPAN Testing

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 21:48 +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> I uploaded Gtk2::ImageView to CPAN and see that it is failing tests
> due to missing dependencies, and that Gtk2-Perl is doing the same
> thing.

Well, Glib and friends do declare their dependencies: in the generated
Makefile and in META.yml.  Unfortunately, there has been no way to
specify Makefile.PL-time dependencies until very recently.  Now we have
the configure_requires field in META.yml, and unstable Glib offers
support for it.  See <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18676>
for more discussion.

Once the new stable series starts, I hope our unattractive CPAN testers
profile starts to improve; or at the very least I hope the reason for
its unattractiveness will be actual failing tests instead of just bogus
CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS.pm behavior.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten