Hahahah.. yeah.. you sly dog you... that's very tempting :-) But it will blow up on non unixy systems, right? If so, you should bail out unless the os is all good. Unless you don't care about those systems, but then you get ugly test reports.

I think I'm having feelings for Devel::AssertOS , it has a cli tool to embed the junk in your distro very quickly. I find it ingenious.

It just adds some inc stuff into your distro, appends the MANIFEST, and prepends the Makefil.PL with use lib inc; use Devel::AssertOS qw(Unix Otherstuffyoutellit);

I suppose after that we can go ahead and do whatever.. invoke external bash scripts.. backtick.. etc. Some systems might have security features to disable a cpan install from making command calls ???

In reply to Re^2: Testing for non-perl system requirements by leocharre
in thread Testing for non-perl system requirements by leocharre

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