RE: CPAN Testers woes

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, John Peacock wrote:
> OK, I give up. How to I communicate to the CPAN testing framework that
> the test machine is missing a required/vital external binary and
> should just NA this test? I've replicated the way that the code itself
> searches for the binary (svnlook if you care) in my Build.PL, and I'm
> using 'exit 0', which is what is supposed to make CPAN itself happy to
> stop. But the damn CPAN Testing framework is trying to grovel around
> inside the [now ungenerated] _cpan/prereqs file:
>
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/03/msg1108978.html
>
> Do I die instead? ARRRRGGGGGGG!

The magic string is:

  die "OS unsupported\n";

It is a bit misleading, but those are the magic words to give you an NA
result.

Cheers,
-Jan