Hi, I've just setup CPAN smoking on a Windows XP with Strawberry Perl 5.12.3.
I followed http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart and installed CPAN::Reporter. A few comments below that could be used to update that page. Following QuickStart I installed CPAN::Reporter and configured it. The config.ini file was created in c:\Documents and Settings\Gabor Szabo\.cpanreporter which is probably based on the %HOMEPATH% environment variable. In config.ini The transport = Metabase uri https://metabase.cpantesters.org/api/v1/ id_file c:/metabase_id.json row had to be added and the path to the metabase_id.json file had to be updated. It seems this configuration file does not work with spaces in the path even if I put quotation marks around it. So I could not use c:\Documents and Settings\Gabor Szabo\.cpanreporter\metabase_id.json Therefore I moved the metabaset_id.json file to c:\ and changed the id_file parameter to c:/metabase_id.json Not ideal but worked. I wonder if I made a mistake, if CPAN::Reporter could be fixed or if the wiki should be updated with this information? The config.ini now looks like this: edit_report=default:ask/no pass/na:no email_from=ga...@pti.co.il send_report=default:ask/yes pass/na:yes transport = Metabase uri https://metabase.cpantesters.org/api/v1/ id_file c:/metabase_id.json The edit_report and send_report options seem to be a bit unclear to me though I recall once I understood them. (old age :) I wonder if it would not be better to change them never to ask questions as this is a smoke testers. What do you use in this configuration? When installing CPAN::Reporter::Smoker it had a prerequisite called Term::Title that got stuck. I was installing it using c:> cpan CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and while I saw [Hello] in the title bar of the window I have not seen the questions that were waiting for an answer: # (y/n) # Do you see '[Hello]' in the title bar (or tab) of this window? (y/n)? y # Has the title bar (or tab) been cleared? (y/n)? y After stopping the installation with Ctrl-C I started the cpan shell and ran cpan> install Term::Title that time it showed the prompts as well. Now it seems the smoker is working and sending out reports. Is there a way I could get notified when it gets stuck or do I need to go to check it myself once in a while? Thank you!! regards Gabor ps. Would it be possible to put a time stamp on http://stats.cpantesters.org/testers.html to know when it was generated (and maybe some hints when is it going to be generated next time). It might be also interesting to see the same list for the last 30 days or 100 days to see who are the most active reporters now.
