On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Curtis Jewell <p...@csjewell.fastmail.us>wrote:
> One of these days I need to build myself a smoke-tester installation. > (Once I get my current project out of the nest, I may just do it. Only > problem would be installing a second instance of Perl and automating it > - and that should be easy enough. Keep bugging me, OK?) > I've been lax at running my Win32 smoker VM because it does require a bit more attention and manual intervention than a unix smoker. When you get around to it, check out CPAN::Reporter::Smoker -- it makes it pretty easy to get going. One important thing is to set up CPAN distroprefs to skip things that cause trouble. I keep my smoking distroprefs on a git repo for other to use if they wish: You definitely should look at the win32 skip list and possibly the others as well. http://echo.dagolden.com/git/?p=distroprefs;a=tree Note -- my rule is "one strike and you're out". Once a distribution causes me trouble in automated testing (hanging, manual prompts, opening windows that don't close, etc.), it goes in the penalty box. That may be more aggressive than you might want. -- David
