Hi Michael, On Wed, 29 May 2013 14:14:08 -0700 "Michael G. Schwern" <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > How hard should it be to get temporary directories/files to work on Windows? > > About as hard as File::Spec->catfile($temp_dir, "fort.yaml"). Don't get > sloppy with file paths. > > Shlomi, I've been back on this list for just a few weeks, but I'm pretty > sure this is not the "fix my module on your OS" mailing list or the "it > can't be my code, your smoker is broken" list. This is a list to > discuss the running of CPAN testing machines.
OK, sorry about all that - I will no longer discuss such matters here. Sorry for reducing the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio . > > I know getting failures is frustrating, this does not allow you being > rude to volunteers by blaming their machines for your bugs and then > expecting this list to fix your portability mistakes without so much as > a "sorry". I realize there may be a language/culture barrier, but > apologizing when you're wrong is pretty basic. > > 1) Assuming the smoker is broken is the LAST resort. > > 2) Assuming the OS is broken/stupid is also the LAST resort. > > 3) If you do think the smoker is broken, be nice about reporting it. Do > not dump your frustrations on the list or the volunteer. > > 4) When it turns out the bug is in your code, apologize for using > people's time. > > 5) Do not use this mailing list as your personal portability fix queue. > > Install some VMs and start testing your stuff. VirtualBox is free and > runs on just about everything. Keep installs of things like BSD and > Windows around. Use those installs as your debugging tool before you > assume the smoker is broken or come here for help. Sure, I can do that. I already have a Windows VM and a FreeBSD VM (though the latter ran out of space). > > Then, if you really think the smoker is broken, you can report it NICELY > and without forwarding your frustrations to the volunteer who runs the > machine and without expecting them to fix your problem. Yes, you are right. Sorry about that. > > Schwern > On 5/29/13 10:24 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > # Testing XML::Grammar::Fortune::Synd 0.0208, Perl 5.014002, > > C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe > > t\00-load.t ............... ok > > t\01-run.t ................ ok > > Can't open 'C:\Users\SOLIMA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ZMHh2bzmTs/fort.yaml' for > > Note the forward slash. The test contains hard coded forward slashes. > Sometimes Windows will handle mixed forward slashes, sometimes not. > That would be the first thing I would fix. OK, I fixed that in my code (converted to use File::Spec/etc.) and it runs fine on my Windows XP 32-bit VM, but I'm still getting this test failure: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/fcf27a08-7363-1014-acf5-ecb56b2677eb But this is off-topic here. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Networking Clients - http://shlom.in/net-clients Jessica on the phone: Sel, you’re getting strange lately, but you are becoming more amusing in the process. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Selina-Mandrake/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
