On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:48:49AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Barbie <bar...@missbarbell.co.uk> wrote: > > Not necessarily. If the report exceeds the byte limit it gets truncated. > > All the perl -V data is at the end, which is the primary source of > > discovery for the perl version. Note this is a limit of the NNTP mail > > server, and one reason why we want to move to a HTTP submission based > > system. > > That shouldn't be an issue with CPAN::Reporter based submissions, as > long as it and Test::Reporter are up to date. CPAN::Reporter > truncates test output (*not* Perl -V) to fit within the perl.org size > cutoff and it now properly encodes/wraps long lines to avoid exceeding > SMTP line length limits that were causing truncations and other > problems. > > Do you have any recent examples?
Yes, but I didn't want to name names, hence my other post :) However, I also note that I don't have the latest version of CPAN-Testers-Common-Article on the server, github or CPAN :( I shall fix that over the weekend, as that does do some additional detection work if perl -V isn't found. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
