Because the need for a tinderbox testing platform is fairly urgent right now for perl6, I am releasing my (place your favorite adjective in the blank here) tinderbox client for perl6 ahead of the near-rewrite that I am working on to use Devel::Tinderbox::Reporter (which was just written) and Test::Smoke (which wouldn't help perl6 all that much anyway.
First of all, what is really needed urgently is clients, both windows and unix os's. Also, those on rare os's: please please please be a client. You can run the tinderbox client software using a low priority if you wish, though it will not clbr the build dir so no rebuilding will occur if nothing has changed. To get the client scripts, grab Z/ZL/ZLIPTON/Devel-Tinderclient-1.1.tar.gz from CPAN. At the moment (pending the rewrite) it does not follow the standard module installation format, so simply untargzip the archive. Take a quick peek at the README and then run: cp sample_config/Tinderconfig.cvs.pm Tinderconfig.pm Then edit Tinderconfig.pm to reflect your configuration. Just run nohup tinderbox.pl to start the client from there. Windows users will have to edit Tindermail.pm to reflect your mail setup. In terms of dev stuff, you can go to http://tinderbox.perl.org/cgi-bin/tinderbox/showbuilds.cgi?tree=perl6 (soon to be just tinderbox.perl.org) and see the build status (notice how empty it is now?) I'll have some more details there soon, but green means all ok, orange means tests failed, red means compile failed, and yellow means building. Let me know if you have any questions. Zach
