On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:38:58PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Craig A. Berry wrote:
> >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. blead, maint-5.10 and maint-5.8 (at least) are still available via rsync. Does that help? If anyone else on the VMSperl list has the time and enthusiasm to pursue this, and get a VMS machine smoking regularly, that would be a great benefit to us non-VMS users. Nicholas Clark
