Hello James, No, you shouldn't need any mail server installed. All the transport is done by HTTPS nowadays. Check out if you have SSL installed correct, usually this is the most trick part to get CPAN::Reporter working. Be sure to check if the prerequisites are in place. Install Net::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL separated to check for errors. You might need to update your SSL libraries before doing that.
Then try to install Task::CPAN::Reporter. I strongly recommend you to use Perlbrew to avoid using the "wide" interpreter and messing it around in the process. See http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/SmokeTesting and http://slashlogging.blogspot.com/2015/01/installing-openssl-inside-your-perlbrew.html for more details on that. Regards, Alceu De: James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> Para: cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 8 de Outubro de 2015 21:16 Assunto: Is a mail server required to participate in cpantesters? Is it still the case that one can only submit reports to cpantesters if one is running a mail server on the machine running the smoker? I've read recently complaints that because most people submitting reports are using cpanm-reporter, the reports being received have been limited in variety. I also know that while Linux and some BSDs are well represented in the reports, Darwin is surprisingly poorly represented. (See, for example, http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Path, where as of this writing there are 0 reports from Darwin.) Bearing those two facts in mind, tonight I read the instructions at http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart and decided to try to submit smoke reports from an older Mac I have. After about an hour, I was able to get CPAN::Reporter, Test::CPAN::Reporter and all their many prerequisites installed and looked forward to generating my first report on my latest CPAN distribution, which I had not previously installed on this Mac. $ cpan cpan> o conf init test_report cpan> o conf commit cpan> force test Parse::Taxonomy cpan> q While the library tested (and subsequently got installed) okay, I got this output during the 'force test' phase: ##### CPAN::Reporter: Test::Reporter: error from 'Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase:' fact submission failed: Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/Metabase/Client/Simple.pm line 124. Metabase::Client::Simple::submit_fact(Metabase::Client::Simple=HASH(0xd8f3310), CPAN::Testers::Report=HASH(0xd8e1d80)) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/Test/Reporter/Transport/Metabase.pm line 122 Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase::send(Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase=HASH(0xd8fdb90), Test::Reporter=HASH(0xd8e2080)) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/Test/Reporter.pm line 272 eval {...} called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/Test/Reporter.pm line 272 Test::Reporter::send(Test::Reporter=HASH(0xd8e2080)) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/CPAN/Reporter.pm line 495 CPAN::Reporter::_dispatch_report(HASH(0xd8fe0e0)) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/CPAN/Reporter.pm line 107 CPAN::Reporter::grade_test(CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xbea4290), "/usr/bin/make test", ARRAY(0xd904ee0), 0) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/CPAN/Reporter.pm line 202 CPAN::Reporter::test(CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xbea4290), "/usr/bin/make test") called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 3552 CPAN::Distribution::test(CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xbea4290)) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN/Shell.pm line 2063 CPAN::Shell::rematein("CPAN::Shell", "force", "test", "Parse::Taxonomy") called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN/Shell.pm line 2230 CPAN::Shell::__ANON__("CPAN::Shell", "test", "Parse::Taxonomy") called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN.pm line 376 eval {...} called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN.pm line 373 CPAN::shell() called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/App/Cpan.pm line 339 App::Cpan::_process_options("App::Cpan") called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.1/App/Cpan.pm line 422 App::Cpan::run("App::Cpan") called at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 12 ##### At that point I recalled that *eight years ago* I had tried to set up CPANtester reporting on this machine, failed, and was told that because I wasn't running a "real" mail server I was out of luck. But, of course, the overwhelming majority of Mac users don't run mail servers on their laptops or desktops; they use regular mail clients (assuming they don't use webmail applications). This, it seems to me, might explain the paucity of CPANtester reports from Darwin. So, is it still the case that you have to run a mail server to participate in cpantesters? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
