On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:38:58AM +0900, Ben Bullock wrote: > Some of the error messages from I get from CPAN testers are pretty > obscure, like "Free to wrong pool" or "perl: fatal: relocation error". > It would be a big help if there was a way to search the other test > reports on the site to look for other modules which had the same > problem and see how they solved it.
To a degree the Analysis site [1] covers some of this, but not strictly as you wanted. [1] http://analysis.cpantesters.org > At the moment the site seems to be > blocked from Google. I'm looking at removing some of the blocks to some robots. As the underlying server has been drastically upgraded, and the code has been improved. It will be a while before they're able to index everything though. > Is it possible to have some kind of > search function on the site? There is a plan to have a search site for this, but as reports are largely plain text at the moment, it will require a large amount of CPU/RAM to suitably search over 22+ million reports. Even if you wanted to just search the last year, it would still be several million reports. > I investigated downloading the database > and trying to search it myself but it is dauntingly large. As Dave mentions, the cpanstats database is a metadata database, it doesn't contain the full reports. In the future you will be able to download the full report database, but that will have to wait for us to move to the new format first. In the short-term there isn't much to help you, but once the block is removed on some of the search robots, you start to be able to get something of what you wanted :) Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org> Ark Appreciation Pages <http://ark.eology.org>
