On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:38:12PM +0100, Christian Walde wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:53:10 +0100, Paul Johnson <p...@pjcj.net> wrote:
>
> >Then I looked into a couple of cpantesters reports which showed a problem
> >on Windows. I couldn't repeat the failures, and it seemed that only one
> >tester had the problem, on version 0.98. Version 0.99 seems not to have
> >shown any failures, so I'll chalk that up to cosmic rays or something.
>
> I can explain this one.
>
> Older Perls have an odd bug that causes $ENV{PERL5LIB} of over 65k
> chars to be completely ignored on Windows 7, resulting in a
> near-empty @INC. This happens in his case as he's running an
> automated smoker which does not actually install dists, but only
> saves them to cpan/build and adds them to PERL5LIB. On windows below
> 7 this does not happen, as the 65k limit is correct there and the
> process won't even start before reaching the perl interpreter code.
> On higher Perls the limit is observed properly.
>
> So, if you get spurious errors, check their PERL5LIB:
>
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/dfc0a61f-6c90-1014-b3bb-e7381ede6b02
>
> If it's massive, ask the smoker to upgrade to Perl5 16.0 or newer. :)
>
> Related ticket: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=87322
Excellent. Thanks!
> >David Cantrell added JavaScript to filter results in html_basic
> >and sent me a pull request.
>
> This is pretty cool, is there a reason that wasn't also added to the
> default html output?
The main reason is that the patch wasn't for that report :) But there
are reasons behind that too.
The default html report has it's advantages, for sure, but it also has
disadvantages. The code for that report is harder to work with and this
is probably the main reason why new features get added to the html_basic
report. In addition, the nice condition coverage reports are inaccurate
in complicated cases. Also the default report doesn't take into account
the newly released uncoverable code correctly.
I have been using the html_basic report for cpancover.com, and at some
point I want to make it the default report, but it could probably do
with a little work from someone who knows how to make things look nice.
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