Re: CPAN Smoke Tests: Some platforms are meant to be broken

I think if your tests are inapplicable, the best approach is to bail out from Makefile.PL with an exit code of 1 and the message "BAIL OUT!" (or something like that) on STDERR. Maybe it's also enough to just not create a Makefile. Have a look around at other modules that are OS-specific. For Win32::Wlan, I use the following boilerplate code in the tests skip all the tests unless they are applicable:

#perl -w
use strict;
use Test::More;

BEGIN {
    if ($^O !~ /Win32/i) {
        plan skip_all => "Win32::Wlan only works on Win32";
    } else {
        plan tests => 1;
    }
};

...
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Re^2: CPAN Smoke Tests: Some platforms are meant to be broken by saintmike (Vicar) on Aug 21, 2011 at 20:40 UTC
... but according to the smoke test reports, there's green light for GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris :). Wouldn't you rather have a clear indication that it doesn't work on these platforms?	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN Smoke Tests: Some platforms are meant to be broken by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 21, 2011 at 20:46 UTC
I think there is some way of telling CPAN testers to emit `n/a` for those operating systems, but if somebody installs a module with `Win32::` in its name on a system that is not Win32 (or Win64), I don't think that passing tests are their main problem :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: CPAN Smoke Tests: Some platforms are meant to be broken by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 22, 2011 at 01:17 UTC
I think there is some way of telling CPAN testers to emit n/a for those operating systems I think it's just a matter of beginning the Makefile.PL code with something like: `exit 0 if $^O=~/MSWin/;` [download] That should put an NA into the matrix for any module being built on Windows - no report gets sent to the author. But I think the exit value is important, so it would be best to verify (eg on the cpan-testers mailing list) that 0 is, in fact, the correct value to specify. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: CPAN Smoke Tests: Some platforms are meant to be broken by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2011 at 08:36 UTC
From the CPANTS FAQ for authors: "How can I indicate that my distribution only works on a particular operating system?" While it isn't a very elegant solution, the recommend approach is to either die in the Makefile.PL or Build.PL (or BAIL_OUT in a test file) with one of the following messages: No support for OS OS unsupported CPAN Testers tools will look for one of those phrases and will send an NA (Not Available) report for that platform.	[reply]


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Re: CPAN Smoke Tests: Some platforms are meant to be broken

"How can I indicate that my distribution only works on a particular operating system?"