Re: Yet another module installation issue

CGI::Session has interfaces to several storage mechanisms. From your Failed Test summary it appears that the only store your tests had trouble with is the DB_File store.

CGI::Application::Plugin::Session uses the File store by default. Your tests that test the File store seem okay. What I would do if I were you would be to go ahead and make install CGI::Session and then make test C::A::P::Session and see what happens. Chances are they will pass.

I did a short article on the C::A wiki that shows a standalone app using C::A::P::Session at http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/cgi-bin/cgi-app/index.cgi?CgiApplicationPluginSessionExample. Use that as your final test.

Indeed, I just had a look in my .cpan/build/CGI-Session-3.95 from when I installed mine and I did a make test and some of the tests failed, but the tests on my session plugin ran fine (I've been using C::A::P::Session in production for a while now). This tells me that the only time I will need to worry about the failed tests, then, is when/if I want to use the session stores that CGI::Session couldn't make test

As far as the install process being more reliable, I'd say it is about as reliable as it can get. The module didn't install itself in an unusable state, and gave us some pretty good clues on what needs to be looked at.

trwww

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Re^2: Yet another module installation issue by bradcathey (Prior) on Dec 15, 2005 at 20:18 UTC
Thanks much trww. It worked! I guess that's what they mean by "force." I suppose the next step is to test both to make sure they really took. I've learned a couple of things as the result of this node, but the main thing is that the installation of a CPAN module will not always appear to be going perfectly, but keep going anyway. I just wish I knew what the reports were really telling me. Some I get, most I don't. —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply]
Re^3: Yet another module installation issue by trwww (Priest) on Dec 15, 2005 at 22:37 UTC
... the installation of a CPAN module will not always appear to be going perfectly, but keep going anyway. A safer statement would be "keep going when you know it is not going to affect the rest of your system." Blindly `force install`ing a module that does not pass its tests is probably a bad idea. trwww	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Yet another module installation issue by gunzip (Pilgrim) on Dec 16, 2005 at 01:46 UTC
And we wonder why PHP has taken so much of Perl's territory in recent years. CPAN might be Perl's greatest asset but it also it's Achilles heel.	[reply]


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