Bug #95031 for Portable: Failed to find the portable.perl file

Fri Apr 25 00:12:17 2014 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Failed to find the portable.perl file

The diagnostics in the subject line found in http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b3bffc1e-ca8f-11e3-bafc-98d4310f0ce5 Besides that, the matrix shows red for all platforms but Windows: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Portable%201.22 HTH && Thanks, (Disclaimer: this was discovered by statistical analysis, I'm not speaking as a user)

Fri Apr 25 09:03:19 2014 kmx [...] volny.cz - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #95031] Failed to find the portable.perl file
Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:02:57 +0200
To:	bug-Portable [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	kmx <kmx [...] volny.cz>

Thanks for your report. There are in fact two issues: 1/ Portable fails some tests if it runs on strawberry portable where Portab le is already installed (I should probably detect such a situation and skip these tests) 2/ Now it only works on MS Windows as there where were some troubles related to co-existance of Portable + File::Spec from the 5.19.9 (or later). I was not able to track down the real cause of the trouble, I have simply created Portable::FileSpec which is in fact a hardcopy of File::Spec::Win32 - this is definitely the reason why it is red on all non Windows platform. My main focus is to keep Portalble working with strawberry perl. But I am open to any suggestions/patches. -- kmx

Fri Apr 25 09:03:19 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Apr 26 01:08:21 2014 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I missed to link to "How can I indicate that my distribution only works on a particular operating system?" on http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes The point is to avoid fail reports and turn them into N/A as to communicate the intention. Thanks&&Greetings,