(You know you're talking to the guy who built EToys practically by himself, right?)

The point is that if you have a homogenous system (all from the same manufacturer, all the same model, all built off the same install disk), you don't have to run the tests. And, if you don't have a homogenous system, what on earth are you doing? You can't write good code for a system you aren't testing on.

failing 'make test's almost always mean that the modules aren't going to work as expected and really should just as well be considered build failures.

When I was running MP2, I had a test failure nearly every time I installed it. I never used those features. Does this mean that MP2 didn't work for me? The websites I ran on it would bely that assessment ...

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In reply to Re^6: Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option by dragonchild
in thread Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option by perrin

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