Hello,

I couldn't find answer to my question elsewhere, so I'd like to ask you all if you have anything to say. My problem is such: I wrote a module (Image::Match, locates image inside another), that uses another module (Prima, graphic toolkit) as a backend. Now, Image::Match receives lots of FAILs on certain tester configutaions, because apparently Prima is not getting installed. In turn, Prima is not getting installed because, well, that CPAN environment doesn't do "make install" during the build process, it only hacks $ENV{PERL5LIB} assuming that should be enough (but that isn't, because of config files).

This raises several questions. First, how useful would be that indication whether a module gets PASS or FAIL ? Not really useful from my point of view, and what I personally don't like, is that there's not one or two FAILs, there are more than half of them.

Also, how representative is that error, if the module dependency is not met? I mean, if testing suite cannot manage dependencies, why should it report as a failure to the module it cannot satisfy?

I thought that this special testing environment is CPANPLUS::Dist::YACSmoke, but I'm unsure if I'm right about it. Also, I've been talking to the tester, but I can't say that it helped the process. Well anyway, I wish I could add something constructive, but I can't think of anything. If you suffered from similar behavior, let's do something about it; if you know what to do, please tell. Thanks!

In reply to Need advice about CPAN tests by dk

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