Re: http://deps.cpantesters.org/depended-on-by.pl returns an empty page

2010-12-15 Thread David Cantrell
mately, CPANdeps's map of what modules exist and in which distributions they live is derived from the CPAN's 02packages file. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery

Re: Live internet tests in smoke testing

2011-01-07 Thread David Cantrell
that I would think you should be > fine. Any complex then running under AUTOMATED_TESTING is reasonable, > and prompting (default to No) otherwise. Perhaps do a simple check for connectivity and have it skip the more complex tests if that doesn't work. Naturally, you should do the conne

Re: Live internet tests in smoke testing

2011-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
se it in their test environments, won't run the networky tests. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" I hate baby seals. They get asked to all the best clubs.

Re: Assistance with testing a new Perl module (Bio-SDRS-0.02)

2011-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
test report id using the form here: http://stats.cpantesters.org/cpanmail.html -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done

Re: detect parallel make in smokers

2011-04-15 Thread David Cantrell
ile] [-p] [-i] [-k] [-s] [-r] [-n] [-u] ... -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world We found no search results for "crotchet". Did you mean "crotch"?

Re: Tie::Hash::NamedCapture and false test failure?

2011-05-18 Thread David Cantrell
r perl is buggy > - perl version 5.13.11 is buggy > Any body has 5.13.11 installed and can test the module? I had a bunch of spurious error reports from 5.13.x recently, so I think that there was just a dodgy 5.13 release. Now that 5.14.0 is out, you could try with that. -- David Ca

Re: CPAN Testers and companies

2011-06-27 Thread David Cantrell
ingOS stop > running smokers or, the better way is to get more people regularly send in > reports. If Chris stops, it won't achieve anything apart from us not getting reports from any platforms where he's the only person doing any testing. How is this "balance" supposed to

Re: Problem with smoker, possibly PERL5LIB involved

2011-06-28 Thread David Cantrell
ution that I test, but that would be intolerably slow if one day someone uploaded several modules all of which depend on big fat bloaters like MooseX::*, which I would have to re-test and install every time. In fact, I used to do that, and some of my slower machines just couldn't keep up with CPAN

Re: Leaderboards by platform or perl version?

2011-06-28 Thread David Cantrell
nGOs overall is a daunting challenge. :-) I'm winning on Irix! Unfortunately the machine I was using has died and the admin is uncontactable. -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental Science University of Human Progress

Re: 2- or 3-part version numbers?

2011-06-28 Thread David Cantrell
gness, and if it already uses Wrongness it should *never* be changed to use proper numbers. (for values of "never" that are accurate enough for a brief email, I really can't be arsed with explaining when it's OK to mix and match and when it's not). -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Arbeit macht Alkoholiker

Re: Problem with smoker, possibly PERL5LIB involved

2011-06-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:32:09AM -0700, Jeff Lavallee wrote: > On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:22 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:41:42AM -0700, Jeff Lavallee wrote: > >> If you actually install modules, how do you identify modules that don't >

Re: trying to locate modules that run "perl" instead of $^X

2011-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
e path will > be some small application >that will display an error message and exit. > > I wrote a small piece of C code to do 2 and now I am running the smoke test. > I wonder if anyone else here has done something similar. What are the > experiences and what are the pitfalls

Re: Using an old XML-Writer here: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/c9bc7d3b-6bf9-1014-adbd-077e73fdb553

2011-07-11 Thread David Cantrell
on XML::Writer: http://deps.cpantesters.org/depended-on-by.pl?module=XML%3A%3AWriter and of course to that you can add anything that depends on those modules. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza." "WHAT MAK

Re: [WARNING] Tests added crontab entries

2011-07-17 Thread David Cantrell
* * ubic-watchdog ubic.watchdog>>/dev/null 2>>/dev/null > -bash-4.1$ > > I have found this on all my smokers so far. Thanks for the warning. I've raised a bug report on github. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information What is the difference betw

Re: [WARNING] Tests added crontab entries

2011-07-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:48:43PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:41:09PM +0100, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: > > I happened to notice this afternoon that the Ubic distribution is > > adding a script to the crontab of the user that is runn

Re: Automatic fallback mechanism (Was: Metabase looks to be down)

2011-07-26 Thread David Cantrell
or the normal T:R:T:Metabase requiring no extra config. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

Re: Report UID question

2011-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
t; from tail log? > A "report" is composed of many "facts" -- each "fact" has a UUID, as > does the report itself. (See CPAN::Testers::Report for gory details.) I'm interested in where my machines are logging UUIDs! It's certainly not in .cpanreporter.

Re: 2- or 3-part version numbers?

2011-08-22 Thread David Cantrell
that people already have installed on their machines. However, you can guarantee that everything will Just Work if you increase the first part of the version string when changing from three (or more) part "numbers" to actual numbers. W.X.Y.Z is guaranteed to be less than W+1.anything. --

Re: CT Server Progress

2011-09-09 Thread David Cantrell
.hexten.net/authors/id/M/MA/MAGGIEXYZ/WordNet-BestStem-0.2.1.tar.gz http://backpan.cpantesters.org/authors/id/M/MA/MAGGIEXYZ/WordNet-BestStem-0.2.1.tar.gz They differ by over a year. cpXXXan relies on these timestamps for creating point-in-time CPAN snapshots. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, S

Re: BACKPAN rsync mirrors

2011-09-13 Thread David Cantrell
d what when, so if necessary a correct backpan can be constructed from that and the files in a backpan with dodgy timestamps. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation

Re: nto

2011-11-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:53:52AM -0400, Nigel Horne wrote: > I'm intrigued the operating system 'nto' is on > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=YAML-Syck+1.17 > > I've searched and have drawn a blank.. That's Neutrino, a version of QNX. -- David Cant

Re: Tests with bad Perl installation? (DCOLLINS)

2011-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
o, the first of those is perl 5.*14*.1, not 5.15. Not sure what's going on there. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You can't spell AWESOME without ME!

Re: Test::More 1.005000_002 (over)coverage

2012-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
sume that those who are "over-testing" it permanently install modules after testing them? It's precisely for cases like this that my testers reset themselves to a known-good base install of perl after testing roughly a day's worth of new distributions. -- David Cantrell | even mo

Re: WWOLF/Test-0.001.tar.gz

2012-03-06 Thread David Cantrell
d he says it escaped by mistake. He is removing it from the CPAN. Andreas, do you think you could speed up the delete so it happens straight away instead of after the usual three day delay? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Today's previously unreported paraphilia

CPAN-testers database knackered?

2012-03-10 Thread David Cantrell
27; DBD::SQLite::st fetchrow_arrayref failed: database disk image is malformed, line 5. And it's not just because my download of the database aborted half way, or my filesystem filling up, or it not being able to cope with big files. This has been happening for a couple of days now - anyone

Re: CPAN-testers database knackered?

2012-03-11 Thread David Cantrell
download several Gig repeatedly. That would be great - it's the way I use the existing SQLite database anyway. As a temporary measure though, would it be possible to generate a database for the first ten million reports, one for the second ten million, one for the third ten million and so on?

Re: CPAN-testers database knackered?

2012-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
d, I'd rather we hammer this out in person rather than do > something hasty and have yet another patchwork solution. Yes. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin kn

Re: Current CPAN indexing problems

2012-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
05 > > The current state is http://pasta.test-smoke.org/207 I see that Crixa-0.02 is now up, although I guess that some mirrors will have a broken 02packages file for a day or so. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive I'm in retox

bogus FAIL for CPAN-FindDependencies?

2012-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
hinks there's something wrong with Andreas's tester here. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend everyone equally, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, politics, choice of beer, operating system, mode of transport, or their editor.

Re: Issues with VERSION migration in a module suite

2012-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
s a prerequisite. But you don't care what Some::Module uses. You should be able to rely on whatever distribution it is that contains Some/Module.pm to DTRT. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God Ra Ra Ra!

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report WPMOORE/NetApp-500.001.tar.gz

2012-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
so I can then automagically generate new versions of Number::Phone::StubCountry::*. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" I hate baby seals. They get asked to all the best clubs.

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report WPMOORE/NetApp-500.001.tar.gz

2012-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:45:56PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * David Cantrell [2012-06-06 15:40]: > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 11:55:45PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > > But in the meantime, the gist is: > > > 2. Always use the same version in all

Re: Testing Tapper::MCP

2012-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
xternal setup (a database, for example, or an environment variable) or there's a non-perl dependency such as on a library or an application. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001

cpantesters CPAN mirror

2012-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
rsyncing from cpantesters.org::CPAN has been timing out for the last few days. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

Re: cpantesters CPAN mirror

2012-07-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:47:49PM +0100, Barbie wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:36:20PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > rsyncing from cpantesters.org::CPAN has been timing out for the last few > > days. > Are you using the rrr tool or rsync'ing directly? rsync

Re: I would like to search other people's test reports

2012-07-25 Thread David Cantrell
o set up > an alternative search? The database doesn't include the reports themselves anyway, just metadata for things like perl version, OS, pass/fail/etc -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Immigration: making Britain great since AD43

Re: smoke tester hanging during tests

2012-07-26 Thread David Cantrell
le 'IPC::Pipeline' > Running make for C/CP/CPANEL/IPC-Pipeline-0.6.tar.gz I'm not surprised. Anything IPC-ish is a bit flakey on Unix-a-likes too, so I wouldn't expect it to work properly on Windows. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Arbeit macht Alkoholiker

Re: I want to make CPAN::Reporter catch and report errors in the pre-PL phase

2012-08-13 Thread David Cantrell
;t hurt too badly if you just scraped the website with URLs like this: http://deps.cpantesters.org/depended-on-by.pl?module=XML::Feed -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

Re: Devel::Trepan smoker failure on v5.16.1 GNU/Linux

2012-09-06 Thread David Cantrell
n dodgy third-party infrastructure, get rid of the SIGNATURE file! CCed cpan-testers-discuss because maybe the CPANPLUS test reporting stuff needs fixing; CCed Florian Ragwitz because maybe cpansign needs to use a different server. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Comput

Re: Help testing HTTP-Tiny-0.023-TRIAL

2012-09-27 Thread David Cantrell
(perl-5.16.0) x86_64-linux-thread-multi 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 test PASS HTTP-Tiny-0.023-TRIAL (perl-5.16.1) x86_64-linux-thread-multi 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger for an extra blast of minty goodness!

Re: How to check for the presence of C headers (.h) files in the path in Makefile.PL

2012-09-28 Thread David Cantrell
Devel::checklib -- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic inelegance as an unfortunate side-effect of the technology. On 28 Sep 2012, at 10:18, Shlomi

Re: small auto tester of dev releases

2012-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
interweb. I mitigate the potential problems that causes by using a dedicated VM, and by periodically blowing away the perl that I've been using and reinitialising it with a clean build from a tar ball. One day I really should get round to sharing my scripts ... -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: 4 months of reports missing

2012-10-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:17:50PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > Latin-speakers, what's the plural of Mea Culpa? Nostrae culpae (our faults/sins) Meae culpae(my faults/sins) HTH. HArepentfulD. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so

Re: Scalar::Util 1.23 openhandle changes

2012-10-23 Thread David Cantrell
distv=Test-RDF-1.11 If I'm reading things right, then your code breaks with Scalar::Util 1.22 and 1.25. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: Testing on IO::Prompt::Hooked

2012-10-24 Thread David Cantrell
it's just because my testers haven't got to it yet - I can see it in the queues though, so they will eventually. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" It wouldn't hurt to think like a serial killer every so often. Purely for purposes of prevention, of course.

Re: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-09 Thread David Cantrell
lists of reports. Patches welcome! -- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic inelegance as an unfortunate side-effect of the technology. >

Re: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-15 Thread David Cantrell
d on it? http://deps.cpantesters.org/depended-on-by.pl?module=Test%3A%3AClass -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Robert A Heinlein

cpan.cpantesters.org missing files

2012-11-15 Thread David Cantrell
? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Suffer the little children to come unto me, as their buying habits are most easily influenced. -- Marketroid Jesus

Re: cpan.cpantesters.org missing files

2012-11-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:48:34AM +, Barbie wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:13:07PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > I just spotted that Data-Domain-1.02.tar.gz is missing from > > http://cpan.cpantesters.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAMI/ > > > > IIRC this is one of th

Intermittent failures for Number-Phone

2012-11-28 Thread David Cantrell
e failures, it's the same test failing every time, but the failure is in automatically generated code, and the same auto-generated code (just with different data) passes its tests elsewhere. Can anyone figure out what it is that's Special about these failure reports? -- David Cantrell |

Re: Intermittent failures for Number-Phone

2012-11-29 Thread David Cantrell
On 29/11/2012 00:04, Slaven Rezic wrote: David Cantrell writes: Can anyone figure out what it is that's Special about these failure reports? Tests fail if Number::Phone::JP is installed. Ah yes, that would explain it. Thanks! -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Your ca

Re: metrics for cpan

2012-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
> modules on CPAN once, not including versions of Perl? It Depends. How much hardware will you throw at the problem? Do you test, install and keep dependencies? How long do you keep them for? -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is n

Re: no tests for latest versions of MooX::Shadow::Attributes

2012-12-04 Thread David Cantrell
> One other weird thing is that if I go to > > http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/M/MooX-Attributes-Shadow.html > > version 0.01_03 has a green bar, but no reports. You mean in the left column? Yeah, I see that too. Not sure why. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "

Re: PASS with no test output

2012-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
keMaker or CPAN > shell created a default makefile to compile that module, kindda like make can > compile things without a makefile present using builtin rules. These days it will also check for a Build.PL before just making stuff up. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Never attr

Re: Fwd: Help identifying a failure report issue

2012-12-07 Thread David Cantrell
th a modern CPAN.pm, but it certainly is with the older one that you'll find installed just about everywhere. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you're reading it in English, thank Chaucer.

Re: CPAN::Reporter is disappearing

2012-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
uble... http://grep.cpan.me is useful. And it shows up this: https://metacpan.org/source/CPANEL/Task-Cpanel-Internal-11.36.001/lib/Task/Cpanel/Internal.pm#L48 -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Repent through spending

Re: CPAN::Reporter is disappearing

2012-12-18 Thread David Cantrell
> checked through static analysis, but it won't be loaded. I do wonder why Cpanel needs Acme::Bleach. BTW, you should probably also exclude Acme::Pony, Acme::Buffy, Acme::Buckaroo, Acme::EyeDrops, Acme::DoubleHelix, and probably a few others too. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing

Re: Locating Perl Modules that need extra attention (especially on Windows)

2013-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
s? > > Is there a way to create the ratio of (failed test reports)/(all test > reports) on MSWin32 for each distribution, and then show the top 100 > of that list? http://devel.cpantesters.org/cpanstats.db.bz2 -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Only some sor

Re: smoking with 5.15, 5.13

2013-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
ant combinations are *usually* noise that makes useful work > > harder for everybody involved. > You say "usually". Is there a case where it might be useful to test > and send reports against an old version? Sure. Even if a module's author doesn't care, the module&

Re: smoking with 5.15, 5.13

2013-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:32:14AM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * Nigel Horne [2013-01-04T09:43:13] > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:19:43PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 09:07:32AM -0800, MPR wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
y an error in the distribution under test. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton

Re: Perl 5.6.x smokers (Bytes::Random::Secure)

2013-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
d of cp5.6.2an ... http://cpxxxan.barnyard.co.uk. It's awesome, if I may say so myself. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE

Re: Perl 5.6.x smokers (Bytes::Random::Secure)

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
out what might have > happened. FWIW, I'm sorry I had to stop sending in test results for Irix. I hope to resume later this year. Mind you, I said that about this time last year. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Human Rights left unattended may be removed, destroyed,

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
at use > File::Temp, may fail too. > In my opinion, these results are useless for module authors. I sympathise. However, if Nigel isn't paying attention, it would seem that the best solution would be to file a bug report for File::Temp, that being the root of these problems. -- D

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
as Unix, you need to jump through all the painful hoops of making things like figuring out what filesystem a file is on portable. I'd love to see someone other than me write this code! -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:57:04AM -0600, Reini Urban wrote: > On 02/04/2013 09:13 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > >and because you want this to work on Windows as well as Unix, you need > >to jump through all the painful hoops of making things like figuring out > >what fi

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:16:40AM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:59 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > And the mount options won't tell you whether your NFS volume is > > backed by something sensible like UFS or ext4, or whether the admin has > >

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:19:35PM -0500, David Golden wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:13 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > my $fs = Devel::CheckFS->new($filename); > I didn't get the point of $filename until later when I realized how > elegantly it solves the filesystem p

Re: Ignore lists for a specific PAUSE id + tester

2013-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:42:20AM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > Testers are happy to test modules that are specific to weird legacy > > proprietary OSes, so portability isn't a problem for us. We merely > > e

Re: Distroprefs with multiple smokers

2013-02-26 Thread David Cantrell
ha/BSD because it hangs" match: distribution: "(ADAMK|TODDR)/IPC-Run-0" perlconfig: archname: "alpha-netbsd" -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"

Re: Request for help understanding a FAIL

2013-03-01 Thread David Cantrell
tanding problem with PERL5LIB being too long. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like ... Tony Benn -- Margaret Thatcher

Re: getting strange reports regarding OS assertion

2013-04-18 Thread David Cantrell
{ Devel::CheckOS::os_is(matches()); } Devel::CheckOS::die_unsupported() unless(os_is()); sub expn { "The operating system can run Siebel CRM" } -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.

Re: Please fix this - http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/791c9742-afca-11e2-91f6-d67446d78f5b

2013-04-29 Thread David Cantrell
ile.PL if it is available. Why? If you don't want people to run Makefile.PL, don't ship it. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton

Re: Please investigate what is causing this test failure - http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6c328b4e-bc14-11e2-8c80-50d7c5c10595

2013-05-14 Thread David Cantrell
ist? You were told what the problem was then. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Feature: an incorrectly implemented bug

Re: Failures in network operation

2013-05-24 Thread David Cantrell
x27;Forbidden'. > Is there anything I need to know about accessing the network in the tests? Make sure that whatever you're using to access the network knows about proxies. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Perl: the only language that makes Welsh look acceptable

Re: Help dealing with DSL-Tiny failure

2013-05-31 Thread David Cantrell
ose > output from a test run on the failing platform? Is there a way for me > to log in and play a bit? http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/ContactSender -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Safety tip: never strap firearms to a hamster

Re: Rocky vs CPAN Testers

2013-07-25 Thread David Cantrell
ed on the site immediately, and I didn't know it was even possible for someone to turn on moderation on blogs.perl.org. Are you sure he's blocking you, or are you just suffering from blogs.perl.org being an unreliable piece of crap? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Whi

Re: PASS with no test output

2013-07-30 Thread David Cantrell
eate the Build script... You're probably thinking of the "Notes for CPAN authors" page on http://wiki.cpantesters.org/ but that site is currently down. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world If you can't imagine how I do something, it's because I have a better imagination than you

cpanstats database not being updated

2013-08-05 Thread David Cantrell
$ lwp-request -m HEAD http://devel.cpantesters.org/cpanstats.db.gz| \ grep -i modified Last-Modified: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:50:22 GMT I am now embarrassed at not spotting this sooner :-) -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and,

Re: Module::Build and Build test

2013-09-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:22:50PM -0700, Serguei Trouchelle wrote: > Does anyone have an idea why "Build test" ran tests in some random order? > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/26dde2f8-10ee-11e3-8efd-8d1987759825 Because the user did the M::B equivalent of make -j? --

Re: cpantesters system setting AUTHOR_TESTING=1

2013-11-06 Thread David Cantrell
g like this in a distroprefs file to only turn it on when running the tests for your own code: match: distribution: "^NHORNE/" test: env: AUTHOR_TESTING: 1 See https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN#Configuration-for-individual-distributions-Distroprefs -- David Cantrell | http:/

Re: deps.cpantesters.org broken?

2014-01-28 Thread David Cantrell
e volunteers to take over the hosting and day-to-day feeding and maintenance of both sites. There's very little day-to-day maintenance to do though - basically just teaching them whenever there's a new release of perl. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire More people are d

Re: deps.cpantesters.org broken?

2014-02-03 Thread David Cantrell
from cron jobs to update them daily. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat

Re: deps.cpantesters.org broken?

2014-02-03 Thread David Cantrell
ry unpolished but does its > job. Ah, excellent. That may be just what I need - instead of rewriting the sites to be vaguely modern/tested/sane, I should be able to just shim that layer in to the teetering tottering pile of shell and perl scripts that has accreted over time :-) -- David Cantrell

Re: unsatisfied configure_requires in perl 5.12.3?

2014-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
ven a combination of perl/OS that a dist normally passes on, there are all kinds of reasons that it might occasionally fail, and I doubt that an old CPAN.pm is even the most common. But it is one of the easiest to diagnose if someone is using the test reports properly and actually looking at the

Re: unsatisfied configure_requires in perl 5.12.3?

2014-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
ing can pass > tests on a bog-standard ancient Perl is not really useful data for > maintainers because for a long, long time, the answer to "I can't > install" is "upgrade your toolchain". It is, however, useful for people wanting to use modules. -- David Cantrell |

Re: Developer version numbers on cpan testers?

2014-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
ms. This doesn't appear to be possible with the version of File::Temp that was distributed with perl 5.8.9, or with the current version on the CPAN. What version do you have installed? Can you temporarily monkey-patch it to vomit out a stack trace so you can see where it's being called

Re: Developer version numbers on cpan testers?

2014-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:14:43AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:12 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > This doesn't appear to be possible with the version of File::Temp that > > was distributed with perl 5.8.9, or with the current version on the > >

Re: unsatisfied configure_requires in perl 5.12.3?

2014-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:46:26AM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:51:02PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > A 'FAIL' result doesn't mean "this code is broken". It doesn't even mean > > "this code is broken on this ver

Re: unsatisfied configure_requires in perl 5.12.3?

2014-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
t > > of this module installs some modules. > Ugh, those Task-Git-LongList* modules look like excellent candidates to put > in distroprefs as "never test". How useless! And Bundle-Git-LongList* as well. Nothing depends on them. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age

Re: CPAN Tester report does not include build output, nor verbose test output from failures

2014-06-03 Thread David Cantrell
ests > to actually supply what I asked. Certainly if I was the tester and you came to me with that attitude it would be too much bother. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Seven o'clock in the morning is something that happens to those less fortunate than me

Re: CPAN Testers

2014-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
ed whitespace in it. Yuck. However, leading/trailing whitespace like in this test report is probably an error. Given that Config.pm is created at perl build time, it might be worth taking up with p5p. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig 23.5 degrees of axial tilt is the reason for the season

Querying metabase

2014-07-02 Thread David Cantrell
Is there any nice way of extracting from the Metabase my first report to the CPAN-testers? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"

Re: Querying metabase

2014-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
gt; into the CPAN Testers Admin site [2]. But don't tell anyone about that as > its sekret ;) When I get some time, I'll enable some basic searching, but > longer term a proper search site is planned. I ended up digging an old copy of the SQLite dump out of my backups and finding it in

Re: How do you handle a perl process that never seems to exit?

2014-08-07 Thread David Cantrell
so it's forked off. The parent then times out and kills the child before it finishes. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" comparative and superlative explained: worse, worser, worsest, worsted, wasted

Re: How do you handle a perl process that never seems to exit?

2014-08-07 Thread David Cantrell
issues; but a test could be long running. An hour or so should do the trick. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that takes that long to test, even if you include the time it takes to fetch and test all its dependencies. And hardly anything needs the timeout, so waiting that long

Re: How do you handle a perl process that never seems to exit?

2014-08-07 Thread David Cantrell
e distribution name and version - Farabi-0.47 - so could be used to disambiguate. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Sobol's Law of Telecom Utilities: Telcos are malicious; cablecos are simply clueless.

Re: CPAN indexing of bignum/bigint/bigrat

2014-08-15 Thread David Cantrell
LORA didn't hand over ownership of big{int,num,rat} but only of Math::Big{Float,Int}::Trace. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Safety tip: never strap firearms to a hamster

Re: Needed platforms for CPAN testers

2014-08-26 Thread David Cantrell
e it doesn't so much have a compiler as a complier. Back when I was testing on it I found quite a few dodgy assumptions being made about data types. And one of these days I'll get round to buying another Irix machine. One day. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpin

Re: Do I need something special to make the @INC of a child process in a test the same as the parent?

2014-09-15 Thread David Cantrell
hat too). > > Should I set PERL5LIB with the parent @INC or something similar? You probably want something like this: https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Devel-CheckOS/blob/master/t/50-script.t#L23-L26 -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" e

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