Re: Tests failing for third party server lapses

Modify your Makefile.PL so that it downloads the definitions file, and if that fails prints out a nice, informative error message and refuses to write a Makefile.

That way you will get NA reports instead of FAIL reports, and your users will know what's going on.

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Re^2: Tests failing for third party server lapses by Sixtease (Friar) on Nov 04, 2008 at 08:18 UTC
This is great, thank you, exactly what I needed to hear. :-) Just how exactly do I make it produce NA instead of FAIL? Link to docs will do. use strict; use warnings; print "Just Another Perl Hacker\n";	[reply]
Re^3: Tests failing for third party server lapses by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 04, 2008 at 08:39 UTC
"How can I stop getting FAIL reports for missing libraries or other non-Perl dependencies?" If you have some special dependencies and don't want to get CPAN Testers reports if a dependency is not available, just exit from the Makefile.PL or Build.PL normally (with an exit code of 0) before the Makefile or Build file is created.	[reply]