new release of CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::Safer

2010-12-16 Thread David Westbrook
I have gone back and updated CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::Safer (now v0.04) -- last update was before CPAN Testers 2.0! http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Reporter-Smoker-Safer/ This is a wrapper around CPAN::Reporter::Smoker that will only test modules that you already have installed ... Main

Re: CPAN::Distribution::reports() prob with CGI.pm

2009-01-20 Thread David Westbrook
) if those two don't get acknowledged in this thread, i'll hit RT for them as well. --david On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:00:29PM -0500, David Westbrook wrote: Ah, we have a problem. The files are all

Re: CPAN::Distribution::reports() prob with CGI.pm

2009-01-20 Thread David Westbrook
loaded ok (v0.21) Fetching 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Text-Tabs+Wrap.yaml'...Could not download 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Text-Tabs+Wrap.yaml': 404 On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM, David Westbrook dwestbr...@gmail.com wrote: Ah! I just submitted RT #42566 for CPAN.pm https

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-20 Thread David Westbrook
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: Proposition: + Provide an easy way to execute CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, limited just to distributions that have any version installed on the system (instead of all of CPAN). I still do not see at all. 1.

Re: Why would anyone be smoking with their compiler not set up?

2009-01-19 Thread David Westbrook
Looks like I'm the culprit here :) Comping to this thread late, so i'll hop in from some scattered quotes: Some people have Perl without a compiler -- this looks like a Windows ActiveState Perl setup. Yes, it's activestate 5.8.7 on a win2k box -- Binary build 815 [211909], built 11/2/2005.

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread David Westbrook
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: 2. Sorry I posted your mail on the list. I do not see any reason why this mail is off-list. Your first reply was directly to me, and not to the list (so the list is probably missing some context here), which is why i

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-19 Thread David Westbrook
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: Pros: + In theory is safer than full smoke, since only testing trusted distros (and their deps) -- the user trusted the distro enough to install it in the first place. For additional safety you might want to limit the

CPAN::Distribution::reports() prob with CGI.pm

2009-01-19 Thread David Westbrook
I'm getting an error trying to execute CPAN::Distribution::reports() for the CGI.pm distro. There is a http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/CGI.yaml, but apparently not a CGI.pm.yaml, which 404's ... Should there be a CGI.pm.yaml? There are dist='CGI' and dist='CGI.pm' rows in the cpanstats.db

Re: rfc: safer smoking

2009-01-18 Thread David Westbrook
thanks for the comments! Any suggestions for a good CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::* subclass name? --david On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:31 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Westbrook dwestbr...@gmail.com wrote: Whereas you wouldn't want to run a smoker

rfc: pen drive smoker howto

2009-01-10 Thread David Westbrook
One of my holiday break projects was to put a spare laptop (with no harddrive) to use running tests with CPAN::Reporter::Smoker ... I wrote up this guide detailing how I set it up (there's material different than what's in http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANReporterSmokerLong), and how it's an