I know barbie has muttered about offline testing a bit in the past, but
I think that was just for testing on machines which couldn't send email.
I have access to a couple of machines which can't do http or ftp either,
on which I'd like to test. I can get files to and from them by ftp to a
staging machine.
I was thinking that perhaps I could use my normal method for selecting a
list of modules to test, then look at their META.yml files to find
dependencies (and dependencies' dependencies, and so on), then use
CPAN::Mini to download everything I need. Tar that up, send to the
staging server, run tests using the local mini-CPAN and saving test
result emails to disk, then get the emails back from the staging server
to my laptop and dump them into my mail server.
Sensible? Anyone already done this?
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