Dear fellow Monks:

I recently submitted my first module to CPAN (and a huge load of thanks to alexbio who first suggested that I do so and then helped me with the somewhat complicated process of becoming a CPAN author.) Yay, fun! - well, mostly. Recently, I've been getting hate mail... I mean, 'FAIL' messages from CPANtesters because my module doesn't work under Windows.

Well, I knew that. Or at least was pretty certain that it wouldn't - my Term::Menu::Hierarchical does a bunch of terminal handling, and that's not anything you'd call system-agnostic. Without having a Windows box to test it on, it was a pretty sure bet that it wouldn't just magically start working on one.

I will admit that I initially forgot to check the OS, and so the first message from CPANtesters was more of a useful reminder than a surprise - great! So I went ahead and fixed it: 

# in t/Term-Menu-Hierarchical.t
use Test::More tests => 2;
BEGIN { use_ok('Term::Menu::Hierarchical') };
# Until I test them, I can't promise anything...
ok($^O !~ /^(?:MSWin|VMS|dos|MacOS|os2|epoc|cygwin)/i)
    or BAIL_OUT("OS unsupported");

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...or so I thought. According to the last email I received, CPANtesters still hates me and FAILs me for not working under Windows.

Can someone give me some advice on how to tell them "yes, I know all about it - don't use it under Windows"? Am I doing using Test::More incorrectly? I'm a bit lost as to what to do next.

Much thanks in advance to anyone who can offer good advice (and again, grazie mille cuore to alexbio for getting me started!) 

-- 
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
 -- W. B. Yeats

In reply to CPAN newbie troubles by oko1

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