Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-08-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On 02/08/10 22:55, Slaven Rezic wrote: Nigel Hornen...@bandsman.co.uk writes: On 30/07/10 13:45, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: Try installing warnings::compat for 5.6 perls. Thanks for the suggestion, but that failed: cpan install warnings::compat [...]

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 09:16:04AM -0400, David Golden wrote: Personally, I see no value in testing anything before 5.6.2 and only minimal value even testing that now that 5.12 is the current production release. I was talking with someone from $networking_equipment_company last week, and they

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-08-02 Thread Slaven Rezic
Nigel Horne n...@bandsman.co.uk writes: On 30/07/10 13:45, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: Try installing warnings::compat for 5.6 perls. Thanks for the suggestion, but that failed: cpan install warnings::compat [...] Warning: prerequisite Test::More 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219. [...]

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Jeff Lavallee
Now I'm curious! I'll know shortly if perl 5.6.2 will compile on my OpenBSD smoker box. In any case, I can only say that I'm afraid to know why you're worried about perl-5.6.2. Why not require a newer Perl for your modules? perl 5.6 is dead, long live Perl! Jeff On Jul 29, 2010, at

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Nigel Horne
Getting it all working on older Perls isn't always that easy. For example Test::Reporter::Transport::Socket won't install on 5:005:3 because it needs warnings, which I can't get on that machine (install warnings tries to install Perl 5.12): Test-Reporter-Transport-Socket-0.12

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Nigel Horne
Todd, I can active a 5.6.1 smoker. Would that help (I know that you asked for a 5.6.2)? -Nigel

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Chris 'BinGOs' Williams
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:21:26AM +0100, Nigel Horne wrote: Getting it all working on older Perls isn't always that easy. For example Test::Reporter::Transport::Socket won't install on 5:005:3 because it needs warnings, which I can't get on that machine (install warnings tries to install

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:39, Andreas J. Koenig andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de wrote: Unfortunately perl 5.6.2 doesn't build OK anymore on my linux smoke box. It spews out warnings about signals and this is why I have no 5.6.2 smoker. If somebody knows how to work around this, I'm

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:39, Andreas J. Koenig andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de wrote: Unfortunately perl 5.6.2 doesn't build OK anymore on my linux smoke box. It spews out warnings about signals and

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 13:16, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:39, Andreas J. Koenig andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de wrote: Unfortunately perl 5.6.2 doesn't build OK

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Nigel Horne
On 30/07/10 13:45, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: Try installing warnings::compat for 5.6 perls. Thanks for the suggestion, but that failed: cpan install warnings::compat Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Going to read

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote: Agreed. As evidenced by the page names. Which means we have no instructions for non-beta reporters. I'm also unclear if my beta reports will eventually propogate to the regular testers reports. Can you tell me? It's sort

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Jul 30, 2010, at 12:25 PM, David Golden wrote: They fail as root. I think it's the old OSX issue with root's home dir. I created an unprivileged cpants account on my box and now it's working better. Ok. I'll see if there's a way to detect that and fail gracefully. For what it's worth,

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:56:52PM -0400, David Golden wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote: I hope that this email does not come off as insulting in any way. I didn't take it that way. It's really helpful to have feedback from someone new because we

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Barbie wrote: That is a philosophical debate beyond the scope of CPAN Testers. Generally the answer is whichever you would normally use. It generally comes down to, what do you use to install your module from the command line? CPAN or CPANPLUS? It's a personal

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:46 PM, David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Barbie wrote: That is a philosophical debate beyond the scope of CPAN Testers. Generally the answer is whichever you would normally use. It generally comes down to, what do you use to

Re: Automated testing how to?

2010-07-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:59:10 +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com said: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:39, Andreas J. Koenig andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de wrote: Unfortunately perl 5.6.2 doesn't build OK anymore on my linux smoke box. It spews out warnings about