I think one issue here is that test authors need a way to know they are running on a cpan-tester box. I think if there were a clear way to signal various things, (like no interactive prompts, on a cpan-tester's box, no live db tests, etc) then module writers would take advantage of it.

For instance i have an option to install 'DDS' as an alias to Data::Dump::Streamer, on a cpan-tester's box I would like it to be installed automatically, on an interactive install id like it to ask if it should be installed, and on an automatic install id like it only to be installed if it already is. But unfortunately I can't work out how to know these things, so I had to use a clumsy means to more or less (less :-) get the right behaviour. As a tester, maybe you know of a flag or env var or something that would tell us we are on a cpan-tester enviornment and should behave accordingly?


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In reply to Re: Trojan Perl Distributions by demerphq
in thread Trojan Perl Distributions by barbie

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