So this means that truncation cannot explain why almost all of my test reports from last week disappeared: I installed Test::Reporter and CPAN::Reporter only days before sending, so they should be up to date. But maybe perl.org's blackhole really was the cause.
> 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. > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:48:49AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > > 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? > 2009/10/16 Barbie <bar...@missbarbell.co.uk> > 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. >
