[Catalyst] Is it normal to have lots of trouble installing catalyst?

Perrin Harkins perrin at elem.com
Wed Feb 8 21:34:27 CET 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:16 -0600, Brandon Black wrote:
> The problem there is that sometimes no effective test can be done
> without external dependecies.

The common solution if doe tests to skip with a message about what to
install if you want to run them.

> You can see a microcosm of this with
> the DBIx::Class tests.  In order for DBIx::Class to do any sort of
> useful testing, it obviously needs at least one supported database
> server and DBI / DBD::xxx installed.

Those tets should attempt to load SQLite and skip if it's not installed.
People who want to run the tests on their machine can install SQLite.

- Perrin




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