On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:10:36PM -0500, brian d foy wrote: > Without getting into a bikeshed discussion, I'm looking for prior art > to test a tarball against a list of local perls before I write my own > thing. This sounds like a fun and mostly easy project, but I don't want > to reinvent the wheel. > > I want to take a distro tarball and test it against every perl I have > installed. This is development testing, not end user / installation > testing: > > % test_with_every_perl foo-1.1.tgz > Testing with perl5.6.2..... > Testing with perl5.8.0..... > .... > Testing with perl5.9.5..... > > At the end I get a nice report saying what went wrong with each version. > > This is something that I want to run right in my sandbox. The process > is really easy: unpack the distro, use the appropriate perl with > Makefile.Pl, and capture the results to make the report. So, who's > already done this? :)
http://pjcj.sytes.net/svnweb/Devel::Cover/view/Devel-Cover/trunk/all_versions is what I use to do this. $ perl all_versions make test You'd need to change the commands at the end to do exactly what you wanted - unpacking the tarball rather than deleting the cover_db directory, I expect. And I have all the perls on my path, which might not be your case. Not sure whether piping the output into a file counts as a nice report though :-) -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
