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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, DavidThread Previous | Thread Next