again
and send you the detailed output.
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uild of perl, such as
anyone I've worked for in the last decade and a half.
Hope that helps!
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.
This should do it, but it's not ideal since we cannot verify the
identity of the reports destination.
Oh how awful! Someone other than CPANtesters might find out whether some
piece of software works or not!
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it can
dig it out of Config.pm. It appears to only exist in config_args.
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om git roughly
weekly. It would be trivial to update the script that rebuilds it to
spit out two slightly different builds, so I'll do that this weekend.
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/licensecheck', ...);
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On 08/08/2021 21:32, Felipe Gasper wrote:
I’d like to try creating a CPAN testers box. Is there any documentation of how
to do this?
The wiki is back up - see http://cpanwiki.grango.org/wiki/GettingStarted
On 08/08/2021 21:32, Felipe Gasper wrote:
I’d like to try creating a CPAN testers box. Is there any documentation of how
to do this?
It's on the wiki, which, errm, appears to redirect to Barbie's personal
site. I've prodded him about it.
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ople need to, manually,
do this on Mac OS Catalina with the latest XCode:
* with the previous version of EU::CB installed, find something XSy that
uses it, and which fails to build because of
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration
* then install this new EU::CB and make sure that the build no
On 2020-02-14 18:55, Robert Ryley wrote:
I'm looking to see if anyone had previously looked for patterns of
errors across modules on a particular platform -- especially mswin32.
Then you might want to look at Andreas's analysis site
http://analysis.cpantesters.org/
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ions. What do you think?
FWIW I'd quite like to get notifications when my code fails on cperl
even if those test results should probably be excluded from aggregates
like the number of passes/fails. There's a lot to like about cperl.
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Your call i
s of other peoples' code where the "fix" is really just a
difference of opinion.
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earlier reply.
I know. And people call the platform some variation on "OS X", not
"Darwin".
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fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah;
fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way
S X at this
stage, but we (well, p5p) should probably delete the entry in that list
for Darwin (with a capital D) as it is potentially confusing. Open
Darwin barely existed and has been dead for over a decade. I doubt that
there is a single person actually using any vaguely recent perl on it.
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rid of Routemasters
-- Ken Livingstone, four years before he got rid of 'em
anything in perlport either.
I know that quoting is weird on Windows when the shell gets involved,
but I thought system(LIST) always avoided that.
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For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance.
qq{\\N{U+2603}}, qq{\\N{U+1F4A9}}]
Thanks!
So simple, but I would never have got that.
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to install stuff. Does
anything exist now like the project a few years ago where Microsoft
donated some cloudy VMs for use by perl people that already had a
sensible toolchain and stuff installed?
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it would worth the effort, I guess.
FWIW I wouldn't use a daemon like that, because I strive to make my
testing environments as close as possible to those that ordinary users
have.
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In Victorian times, when every man wore a beard the size
?author=HEXONET=91.3_xxx=Submit
there's nothing there at the moment but I assume it lags a bit behind.
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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
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 02:52:26PM -0500, Doug Bell wrote:
> > On Jul 11, 2018, at 7:24 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:00:59AM +, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via
> >> cpan-testers-discuss wrote:
> >> Maybe I should force a higher versi
*provided that a non-trial version of the dist
exists*.
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Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.
On 2018-07-09 22:05, Slaven Rezic wrote:
David Cantrell writes:
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:55:30PM +, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. wrote:
Despite my efforts, the new release also showed the same error in one of your
boxes:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/30beda64-7f90-11e8-bec4
that there's something Odd in the metadata that only
affects some combinations of versions of CPAN.pm and EU::MM, but I can't
spot what it is.
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Aluminum makes a nice hat.
All paranoids will tell you that.
But what most do n
After all, it certainly works with gzip.
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Disappointment:
n: No results found for "priapic dwarf custard wrestling".
PRs are created, so
unless the author is regularly checking for them he won't know that your
PR exists. Have you tried emailing him?
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comparative and superlative explained:
worse, worser, worsest, worsted, wasted
and just make sure $stderr, $stdout, and @result (which contains the
exit code reported by system()) are as expected.
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Repent through spending
you uploaded it, because I can see a load of
passes (and more importantly no fails!) in my logs.
I'll add it into my queueue again so hopefully somethign should come
through from that.
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Us Germans take our humour very seriously
-- German cultural att
their industrial robots don't fall
over embarrassingly.
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If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the
entrails of the bastard denying me access to anything else.
then take a look at
File::Find::Rule::Permissions for a work-around I put in my tests.
Anyone foolish enough to run all the tests as root will run them all, as
will travis and my jenkins box, anything else will just skip those tests.
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at wants to sudo. Every so often something
asks me for a password, either to sudo or to ssh to localhost or
something along those lines. I just bounce on the enter key or leave it
to time out, and don't consider it to be a big problem.
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503 backend read error
backend read error
Guru Mediation:
Details: cache-lhr6336-LHR 1502969525 1081782213
Varnish cache server
I generally get what I wanted after a few retries though.
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Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!
/browser/sorttable/
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Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing
uldn't bother generating them!
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Repent through spending
+\.\d+\.\d+ bit and compare it to the minimum acceptable
in Makefile.PL, and exit(0) before writing Makefile if it's too ancient.
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Safety tip: never strap firearms to a hamster
nfigure_requires modules
are is to run Makefile.PL. By the time that has put the resulting data
into Makefile it's too late to actually *use* that data.
Change the CONFIGURE_REQUIRES to BUILD_REQUIRES and CPAN clients should
DTRT.
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"The w
' will miss 'cygwin', and checking case-insensitively
will hit 'darwin' - that is, OS X. This is why I wrote Devel::CheckOS.
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I hate baby seals. They get asked to all the best clubs.
it renders thus:
t/vo..junk ' instead.
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Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!
comment: "Ignore PSIXDISTS"
match:
distribution: "PSIXDISTS"
disabled: 1
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Arbeit macht Alkoholiker
cient
IIRC, and OS X has always had that AFAIK.
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Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a
feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.
e test files.
You could do that, or drop a file full of test settings somewhere and
have your test files read that.
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Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 08:11:40AM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote:
autodie-2.29 is released with the INSTALLDIRS fix (thanks Paul!) -- David,
can you please upgrade?
Done. Let's hope that that fixes everything.
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I think the most
://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/50166e4a-c332-11e4-a3e4-48ce7cb652c0
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ca4a0030-c3fc-11e4-8ffc-88127db652c0
...
Thanks
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engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in
to a job, will never satisfy
and so interacted with it.
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On the bright side, if sendmail is tied up routing spam and pointless
uknot posts, it's not waving its arse around saying root me!
-- Peter Corlett, in uknot
not just confined to my mirrors. I've CCed
the CPAN-testers mauling list, maybe someone there will have an Insight.
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Aluminum makes a nice hat.
All paranoids will tell you that.
But what most do not know
Is reflections will show
On the CIA's evil landsat.
is originally based on one by Andreas:
http://repo.or.cz/w/andk-cpan-tools.git/blob/HEAD:/bin/refill-cpanstatsdb.pl
And you'll need a database table something like this:
https://github.com/DrHyde/CPANdeps/blob/master/tables.sql#L28
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The word urgent
On 16/02/2015 16:06, David Golden wrote:
Sadly, perlport doesn't have a complete list of values for $^O. A
hopefully mostly complete list can be seen here:
https://github.com/dagolden/Perl-OSType/blob/master/lib/Perl/OSType.pm#L17
What OS has $^O eq 'gnu'? Hurd?
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PERL5LIB with the parent @INC or something similar?
You probably want something like this:
https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Devel-CheckOS/blob/master/t/50-script.t#L23-L26
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engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort
a compiler as a complier. Back when
I was testing on it I found quite a few dodgy assumptions being made
about data types. And one of these days I'll get round to buying another
Irix machine. One day.
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There is no one true indentation style
::Big{Float,Int}::Trace.
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Safety tip: never strap firearms to a hamster
() {
sleep 5
echo I didn\'t get killed
}
long_running_process
CHILDPID=$!
sleep 2
kill $!
$ time ./foo.sh
real0m2.008s
...
Note the when long_running_process is invoked, so it's forked off. The
parent then times out and kills the child before it finishes.
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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 shouldn't be a problem.
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.
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Sobol's Law of Telecom Utilities:
Telcos are malicious; cablecos are simply clueless.
is
probably an error. Given that Config.pm is created at perl build time,
it might be worth taking up with p5p.
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23.5 degrees of axial tilt is the reason for the season
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 version of perl and this OS. It means it
didn't pass its tests
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.
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Safety tip: never strap firearms to a hamster
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.
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What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil
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 from and with what arguments?
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:14:43AM -0400, David Golden wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:12 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk 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
CPAN. What
.
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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 :-)
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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
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Repent
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?
--
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While researching
'.
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.
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Perl: the only language that makes Welsh look acceptable
Siebel CRM }
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Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic
optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.
. If
that's the case, B::R::S shouldn't even be getting tested, since its
PREREQ_PM specifies Crypt::Random::Seed as a prereq.
Judging from the very long @INC, the tester isn't *installing* modules
after testing them, and is running into a long-standing problem with
PERL5LIB being too long.
--
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match:
distribution: (ADAMK|TODDR)/IPC-Run-0
perlconfig:
archname: alpha-netbsd
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You can't spell slaughter without laughter
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.
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Human Rights left unattended may be removed,
destroyed, or damaged by the security
::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.
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like figuring out
what filesystem a file is on portable.
I'd love to see someone other than me write this code!
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THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE
PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS
STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:16:40AM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:59 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk 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
done something
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:42:20AM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk 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
encourage
.
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In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be
indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
--Blair P. Houghton
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
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Only some sort of ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get
rid
.
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Aluminum makes a nice hat.
All paranoids will tell you that.
But what most do not know
Is reflections will show
On the CIA's evil landsat.
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:32:14AM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote:
* Nigel Horne n...@bandsman.co.uk [2013-01-04T09:43:13]
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:19:43PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 09:07:32AM -0800, MPR wrote:
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Andreas Koenig
, 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.
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Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et
is useful.
And it shows up this:
https://metacpan.org/source/CPANEL/Task-Cpanel-Internal-11.36.001/lib/Task/Cpanel/Internal.pm#L48
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Repent through spending
, but it
certainly is with the older one that you'll find installed just about
everywhere.
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If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you're reading it in English, thank Chaucer.
://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.
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[OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user
On 29/11/2012 00:04, Slaven Rezic wrote:
David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk 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!
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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?
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What a lovely day! Now watch
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:48:34AM +, Barbie wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:13:07PM +, 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 the fast mirrors - are things
/depended-on-by.pl?module=Test%3A%3AClass
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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
?
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Suffer the little children to come unto me, as
their buying habits are most easily influenced.
-- Marketroid Jesus
to lists of reports.
Patches welcome!
--
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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.
and 1.25.
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fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah;
fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way
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.
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Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special
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.
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Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful
scraped the website with URLs like this:
http://deps.cpantesters.org/depended-on-by.pl?module=XML::Feed
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Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups
/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.
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Arbeit macht Alkoholiker
themselves anyway, just
metadata for things like perl version, OS, pass/fail/etc
--
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Immigration: making Britain great since AD43
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?
rsyncing dirctly.
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) or there's a non-perl dependency such as on a library or an
application.
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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
generate new versions of
Number::Phone::StubCountry::*.
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I hate baby seals. They get asked to all the best clubs.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:45:56PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [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 files within
there's something wrong with Andreas's tester here.
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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.
://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.
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I'm in retox
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?
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