But if you include your POD tests as part of your distributed module, please consider using "skip unless require Test::Pod" logic.

I recently tried to install a module on my ISP and it installed and tested fine except the one test that depended on Test::POD which failed because Test::POD wasn't installed. Off CPAN.pm went to intall Test::POD and its many prereqs and somewhere in that very long list it came on something that needed Module::Build which refused to install (No, please let's not get into a MakeMaker/Build war). Yes the situation is b0rked and I should fix it, but I needed the original module running right away. I ended up doing a force install on the original module since its only failed test was the one requiring Test::POD.

Personally, I don't think it's the purpose of a distribution test to refuse to install because it can't test its POD. Hooray, your module that depends on Test::POD gets a perfect phalanx score. Boo, it cost me an extra twenty minutes to install it.

update Note that I am not recommending that you don't use Test::POD in your test, only that you don't require it for installation.

In reply to Re^2: POD Standards by jZed
in thread POD Standards by ptum

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