Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
Testers, your thoughts? -- Forwarded message -- From: James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net Date: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:21 AM Subject: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0? To: David Golden xda...@gmail.com David, I've started getting reports of failures on two of my CPAN distros -- reports

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread Chris 'BinGOs' Williams
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:36:49AM -0400, David Golden wrote: Testers, your thoughts? I know a few of us are indeed testing with perl-5.12.0-RC0 It doesn't appear to show up as that in the reports though. This bit: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options:

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:36:49AM -0400, David Golden wrote: I've started getting reports of failures on two of my CPAN distros -- reports in which the testers say they are using Perl version '5.12.0'.  Example:  http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6989462 Has 5.12.0 been released?  (I

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread Barbie
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:15:04AM -0400, David Golden wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams ch...@bingosnet.co.uk wrote: This bit: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):  Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP                    

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: If it does, mine can be quickly patched to match it ;) Should an RC be classed as a patched version or an official release? I would think the former. Patched, certainly. David

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread p...@0ne.us
David Golden wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: If it does, mine can be quickly patched to match it ;) Should an RC be classed as a patched version or an official release? I would think the former. Patched, certainly. David Yes,

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM, p...@0ne.us p...@0ne.us wrote:   Yes, that was the impression I got from #p5p on IRC. They sorta expected it to be a quiet release and used just to test things. I blame BinGOs' bots for announcing it everywhere and making everyone excited :)   However, I

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: I'd prefer it not to be there too, but not sure where to put it instead. Will have think later, unless someone comes up with a better idea first CPAN::Testers::Common::Article parses for an extra stanza and that could be

hacking Perl -V output for RC's

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
I've worked up a patch for Test::Reporter that would munge the myconfig line into this: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 0 RC 0) configuration: It's fragile -- will break if there are other locally applied patches, but checks out on the 5.12.0-rc0 that I compiled. I'm

more thinking on getting RC status into reports

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
We could also add another X- header. X-Test-Reporter-Perl: 5.12.0 RC0 Assuming Barbie updates CPAN::Testers::Common::Article to prefer that over other things, we could at least keep the stats database clean. It doesn't help how reports are displayed, but maybe perl version can be added to

Re: Fwd: CPAN Testers Using 5.12.0?

2010-03-25 Thread Serguei Trouchelle
p...@0ne.us wrote: Yes, that was the impression I got from #p5p on IRC. They sorta expected it to be a quiet release and used just to test things. I blame BinGOs' bots for announcing it everywhere and making everyone excited :) Perl roadmap implies that a new development version is released

Re: more thinking on getting RC status into reports

2010-03-25 Thread Barbie
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:55:20PM -0400, David Golden wrote: We could also add another X- header. X-Test-Reporter-Perl: 5.12.0 RC0 Assuming Barbie updates CPAN::Testers::Common::Article to prefer that over other things, we could at least keep the stats database clean. It doesn't help

Re: more thinking on getting RC status into reports

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: I'm happy to go with either solution. Though the summary line version probably is the more correct solution, the X-header would be the easier to parse. OK. It turned out to be a lot more work than I originally

Fwd: CPAN Upload: D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Test-Reporter-Transport-Metabase-1.999003.tar.gz

2010-03-25 Thread David Golden
Anyone beta testing with 5.12.0 RC0, please update to this version (and the latest Test::Reporter). Barbie -- since Metabase doesn't have mail headers, you will have to pick up the proper perl version using the right content field from the LegacyReport or TestSummary facts (or else duplicate the