Hi, some of you might know that Perl is quite underrepresented in the Windows world. So although my main OS is Linux I thought giving a hand there might be interesting. Therefore recently I started to run a CPAN smoker http://www.cpantesters.org/ on a Windows XP machine running Strawberry Perl 5.12.3.
I encountered a number of modules that got stuck on during the smoking. In some cases I spent some time trying to figure out the issue or at least to report to the author and sometimes to RT. In some of the cases I got quick replies and in a few cases the module was fixed in hours. This made me very happy and it felt my time was well spent. Still, I guess in the majority of the cases the tests just failed, the report was sent to the http://www.cpantesters.org/ and the authors got notified. I assume that some of you are running Linux only and might have no clue at all how to make your module work on Windows. I don't know much either but at least I have a Windows running in a VirtualBox so I can try things and report them back. Luckily there are some folks on both the CPAN Testers mailing list http://lists.perl.org/list/cpan-testers-discuss.html and on the Vanilla Perl list http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Win32_Mailing_Lists (subscribe by sending empty message to win32-vanilla-subscr...@perl.org who actually know Windows quite well. So I'd like to ask you all to check the test reports of your modules and if you have consistent failures of one of your modules on Windows then try to fix them. If you need any help, please send a message on either of those mailing list asking people how to fix specific Windows related issues. You can see the report matrix of your modules by visiting http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?author=pauseid just replace "pauseid" with your pauseid in lowercase. thank you for your time! regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/
