Re: Installing Perl modules on Mac OS X 10.2

To expand a bit on PodMasters advice: Live tests of modules against websites which are beyond the control of the module author are subject to bit-rot - the tests will start to fail as soon as the website is changed.

Because only "live" tests fail for you, it is safe to assume that the cause for failure is not in the module but in the tests, and such it is relatively safe for you to ignore these failures and force the install.

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Failed live test of CPAN module by rootbeer277 (Initiate) on Dec 10, 2005 at 02:22 UTC
Thank you for your help. I was able to force the install and after a few test scripts WWW::Mechanize appears to be working properly for me. For future reference, is there a way to peek at these tests and determine for myself whether the failure is critical or not?	[reply]
Re: Failed live test of CPAN module by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 10, 2005 at 07:39 UTC
Yes - just look at the source code and determine which features it uses. CPAN.pm downloads and extracts a module distribution, usually into `~/.cpan/build/<distribution>` - you can look there. Alternatively you can look on http://search.cpan.org - the "browse" link of a distribution lets you browse the whole distribution directory.	[reply] [d/l]