Craig A. Berry wrote:
On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:35:33PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
I've finally got Test::Smoke mostly working on VMS except for my local
mail configuration, thus the manual attachment here. It shows the
Ooh. ooh. ooh. ooh.
What will it take to get the "mail" bit sorted, so that it can run
automatically? And run automatically on blead too?
I've run it successfully with both blead and maint, and I've implemented
support in Test::Smoke for the native VMS mail utility and successfully
sent myself smoke reports with it. One approach to getting mail to
places it needs to go would be to subscribe to one or another perl.org
mailing list with the account on each machine that will be generating
smoke reports (these are on my home network and I don't normally use
them for e-mail). Another approach would be to add support to
Test::Smoke to use MIME::Lite's authentication features and send via an
external smtp server, though that would involve leaving a password
sitting around in clear text. Bram has now suggested a third
possibility, which is interesting. I will now go and read the
Test::Smoke FAQ and find out what I'm supposed to be doing :-).
Oh, and you used the word "automatically," which still needs some work.
I'm currently running rsync on Mac OS X in order to get the .patch file
so we know what we're smoking, then generating a zipball and moving it
to ~/Sites, then kicking off a job on the VMS side that uses curl to
pull it across and run the smoke test. When a tuit or two present
themselves, there are lots of different approaches to coordinating and
automating all of this.
I can supply you with a GIT program that can clone a repository. I can
not get the other functions working for a while due to limitations in
the GNV ports of several utilities and some other problems.
If you (or anyone else) wishes to pursue that, drop a mail on the
vms-perl list and I will respond with the details.
I do not know if the clone function can pull down a specific branch.
It is also pretty slow. It takes at least 1/2 for the git clone to pull
down Perl on my DS-10.
-John
wb8...@qsl.net
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