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• You are to blame here... (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  That's not their fault for running it, it's your fault for not telling them not to.
  
  You are supposed to have your Makefile.PL abort appropriately if you see you are on a platform that you don't support.
  
  There are, in fact, some Win32:: modules that DO run on Linux under certain wine'y scenarios. So a filename-related shortcut wouldn't work.
  
  Your Makefile.PL already says what dependencies and what perl version it needs. It should also abort cleanly if it doesn't support some host.
  
  That way they don't have to gue
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by barbie (2653)

    And if you need some pointers regards the best way to do it, the CPAN Testers Wiki [grango.org] has an Authors Notes [grango.org] page that will help :)
  • Mea culpa...no soup for me! (Score:1)

    by renodino (6856)

    I suppose you're right, and I should know better.

    But it still bothers me...

    ...as I sheepishly slouch off to touchup my Makefile's
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by renodino (6856)

      I retract my mea culpa; both failing distributions contain test and die code of the following nature in their Makefile's:

      unless ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
          die <<'EOMSG';
      #######################################
      #    This module is only intended for Microsoft
      #    Windows platforms.
      #######################################
      EOMSG
      }

      So what gives ?
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Alias (5735)

        Curious... the problem might be that you don't use an error message in one of the two formats that CPAN Testers understands?
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by daxim (8218)

        "How can I indicate that my distribution only works on a particular operating system?" [grango.org]

        Further questions about testing are better asked on the list cpan-testers-discuss [grango.org].
  • Re: (Score:0)

    by slanning (5049)

    That's not their fault for running it, it's your fault for not telling them not to. You are supposed to have your Makefile.PL abort appropriately if you see you are on a platform that you don't support.

    In which holy book is this documented?
• Re: CPAN Testers (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  Sounds like it might be a job for Devel::AssertOS [cpan.org].
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    Except that it would be a configure-time dependency, which isn't officially supported yet...