Hi, Gabor's recent question regarding testing say a system perl without having to install the smoking toolchain sent me off thinking.
I had an epiphany last night. The CPANPLUS distribution comes with a tool called 'cpanp-boxed' and bundled versions of modules that it needs to boot-strap itself. This means that it is possible to simply download the CPANPLUS distribution, extract it, chdir to the extracted distribution and: perl bin/cpanp-boxed This boxed cpanp can now be used to install modules etc. without actually installing CPANPLUS. Looking at the code for cpanp-boxed, it occurred to me that with the inclusion of a few more bundled modules and some extra bin/ scripts I could get something working to have CPAN Testing in a boxed environment too. So I did. http://github.com/bingos/smoke-in-a-box/tree/master The whole CPAN Testing environment in a box. It includes bundled versions of Test::Reporter, Sort::Versions, Regexp::Assemble, Config::IniFiles, YAML::Tiny and CPANPLUS::YACSmoke and two scripts yactest and yactest-boxed. =========================================================================== $ git clone git://github.com/bingos/smoke-in-a-box.git $ cd smoke-in-a-box/ $ perl bin/cpanp-boxed cPAN Terminal> s conf email [email protected] Key 'email' was set to '[email protected]' CPAN Terminal> s conf cpantest_mx my.mail.gateway # optional Key 'cpantest_mx' was set to 'my.mail.gateway' CPAN Terminal> s save boxed Configuration successfully saved to CPANPLUS::Config::Boxed CPAN Terminal> quit Exiting CPANPLUS shell $ perl bin/yactest-boxed # Smoking happens =========================================================================== yactest-boxed takes distributions to be smoked on the command-line perl bin/yactest-boxed DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION Without any options it fetches the RECENT file from a CPAN mirror and starts processing distributions from there. I'll be writing a POE::Component::SmokeBox Backend for this soon so that one can use minismokebox with this setup. Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ==========================
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