This suggests that a useful mechanism would be to have "pre-tests" that check out the environment. If a pre-test failed, then the main test results (positive or negative) would not be reported, and the tester would be informed of the problem.

And then, to go with this, we'd want a standard Test::Sanity or Test::Configuration or Test::NotMyFault that people could submit their checks too, so it could gradually accrete tests for the most common misconfigurations that CPAN authors have been unfairly blamed for.

Finally, we'd need... well... someone to actually implement those two suggestions. (/me hides)

I work for Reactrix Systems, and am willing to admit it.

In reply to Re: More on "IO object version does not match bootstrap parameter" error by sfink
in thread More on "IO object version does not match bootstrap parameter" error by jkeenan1

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