[Koha] [Info] What's going on at indexdata.com?

[Mike Taylor]

Joshua Ferraro writes:
 > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Heikki Levanto <heikki at indexdata.dk> wrote:
 > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:46:17PM -0400, Bob Ewart wrote:
 > >> I've been trying to install Net::Z3950::ZOOM on a couple of different
 > >> machines, one for Koha, and have been getting the following for several
 > >> days:
 > >> #   Failed test 'connection to 'test.indexdata.com:2118' refused (10000)'
 > >>
 > >> I can force the install.
 > >
 > > We are still in the process of moving offices, and in that connection we
 > > cleaned up some old machines that were not (supposed to be) used.
 > > test.indexdata.com is officially dead. We must have forgotten that it
 > > was used in the perl module tests. We will point those to some other
 > > target in the next release.
 >
 > I would suggest making any tests that require network access
 > optional if that's practical. This issue has come up a few times in
 > the past and is especially difficult for folks that don't have a
 > lot of CPAN experience.

Not easy to do: the standard CPAN sequence is just:
	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	sudo make install

If we change that so that people have to do by-hand configuration
before "make test", then, realistically, they just won't do it.  So
99% of the time, this will be done in the default way, and we
therefore need to pick the best way as the default way.

We won't be moving offices again for a while, anyway :-)

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