Re: [Module::Build] [RFC] author tests

[Chris D. <ch...@cl...>]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:

> Chris Dolan wrote:
>> Test::Pod is different from general regression tests.  POD should  
>> either
>> pass on all systems or fail on all.  In what scenario would POD  
>> fail on
>> a non-developer system.
>
> Manifying problems...ala troff/pod2html/pod2man issues....

This is news to me.  So what do you do with CPAN packages that don't  
include pod.t and have broken POD?  Just fail to install them?

It seems to me that to solve manifying problems you need *authors* to  
run Test::Pod, not end users since the latter have no power to fix  
the distro.  If you are a packager, then you probably have to run  
Test::Pod by hand anyway since so many packages lack pod.t.

Chris
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