Hello CPAN Testers, Today I managed to set up a CPAN Smoke tester running on Windows Server 2016 and Strawberry Perl 5.28.0 \o/ YAY!!!, but I did hit a few walls trying to get there.
First I want to mention that the CPAN Testers <https://qa.perl.org/cpan-testers/> page is concise and to the point. This page lead me to the CPAN Testers WIKI <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/> from which I went on to learn more about CPAN Testing at the Quick Start <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart> page. Please Note that I am using Google cloud to setup window server instances. In my first attempt, I installed CPAN::Reporter but had run into an issue where I was unable to install Data::UUID module ( https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/28 ) this instance was then deleted due to the fact that I was not able to RDP into the box ( The instance was 1 cpu and 3.3 gig ram server ). In my second attempt, I built another server ( with the same specs as the first attempt ) but this time I install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and had the c:\tmp workaround setup that was noted in ( https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/24 ). I started the CPAN::Reporter::Smoker program but noticed that I didn't have any test results sent to metabase ( http://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt - Thanks to Jim Keenan for this link and the troubleshooting help ). I didn't setup my metabase-profile so I found a link to install Task-CPAN-Reporter where I could install all of CPAN::Reporter dependencies and setup my metabase-profile afterwards. while setting up my metabase-profile it turns out I didn't have the proper permission settings on the CPAN directory ( https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/28d88611e9abae283ccddf39a199832d ). after resolving my metabase configuration I was able to start a test install of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker <https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/b3c9671efc2ab51173e56d817e8d817e> and begin the Smoker process again. Everything was working just fine until I see that my server had hung for some reason, I avoided contacting Google for support and moved forward with upgrading the hardware to a 2 CPU and 5.5 Gig ram server. Also I sometimes have to go to the command prompt and press the enter key while a make is running ( sometimes it just hangs there ) Can anyone in this list recommended specs for a Windows server for CPAN Testing? Any pointers or tips on how I could have done this better I greatly appreciate it. Charlie Gonzalez (E) itchar...@gmail.com Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>
