Re: Possible patch to Test::Pod

On Jun 5, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Why would an end-user have trouble with failing tests at install time?  If
> they don't care about the failure, just ignore it and install the module
> anyway.

End users don’t necessarily know if a test failure is important or not.

> Is there some tool involved that's refusing to install modules if the test
> suite fails?  If so, I think that tool is what's buggy here, and that tool
> should be fixed so that it's possible to install modules with failing
> tests, since that's very common, for many reasons other than this.

Yeah, CPAN.pm won’t unless you `force install`.

Overall I agree with you, though: I think it’s a useful error. I just don’t know if it’s worth breaking so many test suites for at once.

Best,

David