Fwd: "make test" fails installing DBI-1.632 (linux, perl5.8.8)

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From: John Wiersba <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: "make test" fails installing DBI-1.632 (linux, perl5.8.8)
To: "Furst, Carl" <[email protected]>

Thanks, Carl.  Well, I see that now, but I did not see it before, even
after looking for it.  And it's only a warning; it did not cause a
failure in the Makefile.PL step (exit status = 0).  Additionally, it's
nowhere near the point of failure, which occurred in make test.

Maybe I'm dreaming, but if the wrong version of Test::Simple will
cause test failures, then detecting the wrong version should trigger a
failure and it should be loud.  I spent probably an hour of time
scanning the docs for any mention of the problem, debugging the
failing test, then guessing the cause (maybe there's a more recent
version of Test::More needed to supply the note() function), and
searching on google, to end up deducing that Test::Simple needed to be
updated.

Or, alternatively, some comment in INSTALL or README.md mentioning the
correlation of the symptoms (failed test) with the version of
Test::Simple installed.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Furst, Carl <[email protected]> wrote:
> But it did say:
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> Warning: prerequisite Test::Simple 0.90 not found. We have 0.62.
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> Which is  the same thing, really.
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> Carl Furst
> CMS Developer
> MLB Advanced Media
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> On 1/8/15, 10:48 AM, "John Wiersba" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>After installing the latest version of Test::Simple, all tests passed,
>>and the installation (and a test script) succeeded.  Problem #3 is
>>that the make (or make test) didn't fail with something like
>>"dependency on Test::Simple 0.90 not satisfied".
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>>On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 04:50:52PM -0500, John Wiersba wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I see in META.{json,yaml} that a later version of Test::Simple is
>>>> required, but that doesn't seem to cause a noticable error message or
>>>> abort the Makefile.PL/make/make test process.  Installing the latest
>>>> version of Test::Simple allows "make test" to succeed.
>>>
>>> So there's no problem now? Or did that just fix t/06attr.t?
>>>
>>> Tim.
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