I was very impressed with Autrijus' article on www.cpan.org. This has inspired me to try to do some Windows CPAN testing. Please bear in mind that I am very new to all this.
The cpantest script from http://testers.cpan.org does not seem to work out-of-the-box on Windows. It failed for me with a: Died at G:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Mailer.pm line 291 It seems to be trying to run mail or sendmail or some other exe which does not exist on Windows. Anyway, I then tried installing CPANPLUS 0.033. Success! When I tried: i Acme::Buffy it worked very nicely. But when I try to send my test report from cpanp shell, it hangs for about 5 minutes when running cpantest. The mail does not get sent but no error is reported. In desperation, I hack cpantest.bat (I think this was supplied with CPANPLUS) and change the smtp Server from onion.perl.org to my local SMTP server. This stops the 5-minute hang, but I am now defeated by internal security and suffer a "Relaying is prohibited" message. Why did CPANPLUS need to hack cpantest script with this smtp Server onion.perl.org business? Does the standard cpantest script not work out-of-the-box on Windows? If so, why is there not a note to that effect on http://testers.cpan.org? Anyway, I now know how to defeat this "Relaying is prohibited" via a custom Perl script that uses SMTP authentication. So I should now be able to report test results via CPANPLUS shell by using a custom version of cpantest script with custom SMTP authentication. Before I do that, however, I am interested to hear if anyone else has had similar problems, and how they solved them. /-\ndrew
