| Subject: | Allowing Automated CPANPLUS Tests |
Dear Mark Stosberg,
Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. I'm currently helping as a CPAN
tester, testing all the daily uploaded modules with a semi-automated
process. I found that your module WWW-Mechanize-Plugin-Display-1.00 is
not friendly to CPANPLUS testers, as it does not allow automated tests.
It's Makefile.PL by default tries to install Module-Build and enters an
infinite loop when failed, using up all the CPU and system resources of
the machines of us CPAN testers, preventing us from offering valuable
test reports to other CPAN authors.
Please understand that, as there are 40-60 modules uploaded onto
CPAN everyday, we really cannot test each module manually and have to
rely on this automated testing process. Also because of the nature of
the newly-uploaded modules, we cannot possibly trust them, cannot run
the tests as root and hence cannot really install anything onto our
system during the test process. Having a module that requires
installing something onto the system or entering an infinite loop is
really frustrating to us.
Could you please correct this issue, by letting ExtUtils::MakeMaker
handle the Makefile.PL build process? I saw that the only thing special
in your Build.PL is a hook to ACTION_dist. But since ACTION_dist is
something only used by the author, that is, yourself, I believe you can
write a simple Makefile.PL that really use ExtUtils::MakeMaker. You may
refer to mine own as a simple example:
http://search.cpan.org/src/IMACAT/Locale-Maketext-Gettext-1.22/Makefile.PL
If you really cannot provide a Makefile.PL really for
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, could you please remove Makefile.PL, so that
CPANPLUS may refer to Build.PL and use its internal Module::Build instead?
Thank you very much in advance.