Re: where is "gregor herrmann"?

2024-05-25 Thread James E Keenan
d the GUID for a CPANtesters report I generated today. The response in the "Address" row was: "James E Keenan". I.e., it was a name, not an email address. It turns out that doing a DDG search for Gregor Herrmann quickly brought up that he is on the Debian Perl team.

Re: some permissions failures with Archive::Tar::Wrapper

2024-05-07 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/7/24 19:16, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: Hello there, I'm getting failures regarding permissions only from some smokers from Carlos Guevara, no idea what is happening over there? Maybe is something related to a specific file system or patched kernel?

Re: CPANtesters failing to report distribution name for Net-SSLeay

2024-02-21 Thread James E Keenan
On 2/21/24 07:33, Slaven Rezic wrote: 12. 01. 2024. u 21:10, James E Keenan piše: On 1/11/24 17:19, James E Keenan wrote: On 1/11/24 16:16, Slaven Rezic wrote: 09. 01. 2024. u 22:38, James E Keenan piše: CPANtesters appears to be failing to record the name of at least one distribution when

Re: CPANtesters failing to report distribution name for Net-SSLeay

2024-01-12 Thread James E Keenan
On 1/11/24 17:19, James E Keenan wrote: On 1/11/24 16:16, Slaven Rezic wrote: 09. 01. 2024. u 22:38, James E Keenan piše: CPANtesters appears to be failing to record the name of at least one distribution when receiving reports.  The distribution which I have observed this in is Net-SSLeay

Re: CPANtesters failing to report distribution name for Net-SSLeay

2024-01-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 1/11/24 16:16, Slaven Rezic wrote: 09. 01. 2024. u 22:38, James E Keenan piše: CPANtesters appears to be failing to record the name of at least one distribution when receiving reports.  The distribution which I have observed this in is Net-SSLeay, whose version 1.94 was uploaded on Jan 08

CPANtesters failing to report distribution name for Net-SSLeay

2024-01-09 Thread James E Keenan
, I found normal entries for the last 4 distributions listed above ... # [2024-01-09T21:09:46Z] [James E Keenan] [pass] [JKEENAN/Pod-Multi-0.10.tar.gz] [x86_64-linux] [perl-v5.39.6] [6a9cba0c-af33-11ee-b8ad-c2f41c0db3cd] [2024-01-09T21:09:46Z] [2024-01-09T21:09:39Z] [James E Keenan] [pass

Re: matrix and fast-matrix both hanging indefinitely

2023-10-18 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/18/23 07:20, James E Keenan wrote: At this time (Oct 18 2023, 7:19 AM America/New York), browser calls to both fast-matrix and matrix are hanging indefinitely. http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Devel-NYTProf%206.13 matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Copy-Recursive-Reduced Both

matrix and fast-matrix both hanging indefinitely

2023-10-18 Thread James E Keenan
At this time (Oct 18 2023, 7:19 AM America/New York), browser calls to both fast-matrix and matrix are hanging indefinitely. http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Devel-NYTProf%206.13 matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Copy-Recursive-Reduced

Re: Website lacks info about sending your first CPANtesters report

2023-09-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 9/16/23 15:28, Timothe Litt wrote: https://web.archive.org/web/20211003135843/http://cpanwiki.grango.org/ is a working snapshot. I had to clean up that link a bit, but got this:

Website lacks info about sending your first CPANtesters report

2023-09-16 Thread James E Keenan
Friends of CPANtesters: I recently had a bug report about one of my CPAN distributions experiencing test failures on Windows, an OS to which I have no access. Once we discussed the problem, I accepted pull requests from the reporter and this morning issued a new CPAN release. I asked the

Re: Missing test reports: Promise::XS

2023-03-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 3/30/23 12:38, Felipe Gasper via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: Hello, I pushed a Promise::XS release on the 16th--two weeks ago as of today. There are still no test runs reported. Slaven told me that his smokers have run the new release, so there would seem to be something amiss?

Re: Testers down?

2023-03-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 2/26/23 20:45, Felipe Gasper via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: Hello, I’m trying to load a test report: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/f654dff4-b5fe-11ed-80ed-b1326e8775ea … but have been getting timeouts all day. Is something perhaps amiss with CPAN Testers? Thank

www.cpantesters.org cert expired?

2022-12-30 Thread James E Keenan
Connecting to CPANtesters.org with a URL such as: # https://www.cpantesters.org/distro/E/Excel-Writer-XLSX.html # ... I get this warning: # Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to www.cpantesters.org. The website is either

Re: fast-matrix is alive again

2022-11-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/4/22 17:05, Slaven Rezic wrote: The fast-matrix, also known as log.txt matrix, is again functional. You can access it using http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/ http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=libwww-perl http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Dist-Zilla Slaven, thanks for

Re: matrix.cpantesters.org is not being updated

2022-10-10 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/10/22 07:46, James E Keenan wrote: I generated some CPANtesters reports for the latest version of JSON::PP on Saturday afternoon my time.  35 hours later, those reports have not appeared in the matrix. http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=JSON-PP+4.12 Does anyone know what is happening

matrix.cpantesters.org is not being updated

2022-10-10 Thread James E Keenan
I generated some CPANtesters reports for the latest version of JSON::PP on Saturday afternoon my time. 35 hours later, those reports have not appeared in the matrix. http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=JSON-PP+4.12 Does anyone know what is happening? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

Re: matrix.cpantesters.org: Reports not appearing

2022-08-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 7/31/22 09:50, James E Keenan wrote: As part of my work for Perl 5 Porters in analyzing "Blead Breaks CPAN" (BBC) bug tickets, I frequently have occasion to build perl at the HEAD of the blead (main development) branch, install it and 'cpanm' locally, install Task::CPAN::Report

matrix.cpantesters.org: Reports not appearing

2022-07-31 Thread James E Keenan
As part of my work for Perl 5 Porters in analyzing "Blead Breaks CPAN" (BBC) bug tickets, I frequently have occasion to build perl at the HEAD of the blead (main development) branch, install it and 'cpanm' locally, install Task::CPAN::Reporter against that perl, then try to install CPAN

Re: new releases of cpan-openbsd-smoker

2022-05-18 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/18/22 16:12, Slaven Rezic wrote: James E Keenan mailto:jkee...@pobox.com>> hat am 18.05.2022 16:26 geschrieben: [...] The problem I've been encountering recently is that the Task-CPAN-Reporter stack includes IO-Socket-SSL, and the CPAN maintainer of IO-Socket-SSL has given up on

Re: new releases of cpan-openbsd-smoker

2022-05-18 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/10/22 07:17, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: > Hello folks, > > I released yesterday (a little bit late, to be honest) newer versions of > the CPAN Smoker for OpenBSD Vagrant boxes: > > https://app.vagrantup.com/arfreitas/boxes/openbsd-7.0-cpan-smoker-i386

Should we start adding '-Utaint_support' to CPANtesters configurations

2022-04-21 Thread James E Keenan
As of perl-5.35.11, perl offers a configuration option, '-Utaint_support', which enables a user to build a perl executable without taint support. Neil Bowers contacted me with a pull request for a CPAN distribution that I co-maintain, IPC-System-Simple

Re: recent module versions not shown -- bug?

2021-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 8/31/21 8:47 AM, Dmitry Karasik wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report problems, but the RT queue seems unused, and Barbie didn't answer to my mail either. I'll ask here, but if this is not the correct place kindly refer me to the one. Anyway, the website reports

Re: CPAN::Reporter: error loading Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase.

2021-04-27 Thread James E Keenan
On 4/27/21 9:05 PM, James E Keenan wrote: On FreeBSD-12 I have CPAN::Reporter and Task::CPAN::Reporter installed. In ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm I have set:  'test_report' => q[1], But when I use the 'cpan' shell to 'install' or 'test' CPAN distros, no test report is generated or sent.  H

Re: CPAN::Reporter: error loading Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase.

2021-04-27 Thread James E Keenan
On 4/27/21 9:05 PM, James E Keenan wrote: On FreeBSD-12 I have CPAN::Reporter and Task::CPAN::Reporter installed. In ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm I have set:  'test_report' => q[1], But when I use the 'cpan' shell to 'install' or 'test' CPAN distros, no test report is generated or sent.  H

CPAN::Reporter: error loading Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase.

2021-04-27 Thread James E Keenan
On FreeBSD-12 I have CPAN::Reporter and Task::CPAN::Reporter installed. In ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm I have set: 'test_report' => q[1], But when I use the 'cpan' shell to 'install' or 'test' CPAN distros, no test report is generated or sent. Here is typical output: # cpan[2]> test

Re: https://metabase.cpantesters.org/api/v1/: invalid security certificate

2020-04-02 Thread James E Keenan
l Exception', 'status' => 599, 'url' => 'https://metabase.cpantesters.org/api/v1/', 'success' => '' }; # Regards, Slaven Thank you very much. Jim Keenan James E Keenan < jkee...@pobox.com <mailto:jkee...@pobox.com>> hat am 2. April 2020 um 14:29 ges

https://metabase.cpantesters.org/api/v1/: invalid security certificate

2020-04-02 Thread James E Keenan
Today I had occasion to call a program which uses App::cpanminus::reporter. I have run programs with that module hundreds of times before. The program failed with this output in the debugger. # error loading Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase. Please install the missing module or

Re: need an opinion / reality check / second pair of eyes

2020-01-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 1/29/20 12:42 PM, Eric Wolf wrote: I have a test that tries to catch a die in an eval. This works fine for me locally, but the tester report indicates that it fails and bails at this point. To me this seems to indicate that the test harness is set up to barf on this type of error or that my

Re: Bug in CPAN testers upgrades to EU::MM?

2020-01-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 1/19/20 1:26 PM, Felipe Gasper wrote: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/03e0f9fe-3aa2-11ea-815e-b26d1f24ea8f ^^ The above doesn’t seem like it ought to happen if the tester logic is indeed using the EU::MM version (7.44) that it reports. Perl 5.18.4 shipped with EU::MM 6.66, which

Re: Data Retention Policies

2019-10-28 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/26/19 9:49 PM, Doug Bell wrote: Okay, the general vibe I got from the responses is: * Report metadata isn't useful enough without the report text * Data for old distributions matters for the people maintaining systems that use them I think the best path forward might be to only do

Re: Windows testing/debugging

2019-02-25 Thread James E Keenan
On 2/25/19 8:11 AM, David Cantrell wrote: I don't need to use Andreas's analysis tool to figure out what the common factor is in these test failures :-) http://cpantesters.org/distro/T/Test-Differences.html But I don't have access to any Windows machines, or any knowledge of how to use any

Re: www.cpantesters.org: Incorrect spelling of link

2018-08-12 Thread James E Keenan
for letting me know, I'll take a look at fixing it tomorrow or this weekend. Doug Bell d...@preaction.me <mailto:d...@preaction.me> On Jul 26, 2018, at 7:16 PM, James E Keenan <mailto:jkee...@pobox.com>> wrote: In a separate thread on this list this link was cited: http://

www.cpantesters.org: Incorrect spelling of link

2018-07-26 Thread James E Keenan
In a separate thread on this list this link was cited: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/671feed2-901f-11e8-b4e1-90e77247484a If I click on the link and go to that page I see that its headline is: Report for *WebService-Hexonet-Connector-1.05* ... where the part between the asterisks is

Re: new Vagrant boxes for OpenBSD 6.3

2018-06-22 Thread James E Keenan
On 06/20/2018 08:40 AM, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: Hello folks, For those interested, I released a new Vagrant box for OpenBSD: https://app.vagrantup.com/arfreitas/boxes/openbsd-6.3-cpan-smoker Besides the OpenBSD version upgrade, the project now uses Packer to

Re: "find a tester" not working?

2018-06-10 Thread James E Keenan
On 06/09/2018 06:13 PM, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to fetch the author for both reports below: https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/aa4f5cac-6e3a-1014-a899-817a51db77ab

Re: status of Archite::Tar::Wrapper

2018-05-26 Thread James E Keenan
On 05/26/2018 04:51 PM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via cpan-testers-discuss wrote: > Hello folks, > > This is a bit off-topic, but do you guys now the status of Archive::Tar::Wrapper project? > > I understand it is quite used by us (since it's faster to unpack tarballs than the

Re: fast matrix with report links

2018-02-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 01/25/2018 04:10 PM, Slaven Rezic wrote: FYI: since today fast-matrix.cpantesters.org has links for reports created with the new CPAN Testers API (that is, everything since mid August 2018). Thanks to Andreas who forwarded a useful IRC chat to me. Regards, Slaven I have found this

Re: matrix fails to show 'Tester'

2017-12-28 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/28/2017 09:33 AM, James E Keenan wrote: On 08/17/2017 09:50 PM, James E Keenan wrote: This is much the same problem that I wrote about in this group in December 2015 (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/2015/12/msg3751.html).   matrix.cpantesters.org is failing

Re: matrix fails to show 'Tester'

2017-12-28 Thread James E Keenan
On 08/17/2017 09:50 PM, James E Keenan wrote: This is much the same problem that I wrote about in this group in December 2015 (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/2015/12/msg3751.html).  matrix.cpantesters.org is failing to identify me as the Tester who submitted a given

Re: Fwd: *** SECURITY information for gateway.bandsman.co.uk ***

2017-12-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/04/2017 02:06 PM, Nigel Horne wrote: On 12/4/17 1:34 PM, James E Keenan wrote: On 12/04/2017 09:08 AM, Nigel Horne wrote: I received a bunch of these today.  It may be blacklisting doit - in case it's doing it to something you really don't want it to gateway.bandsman.co.uk : Dec 4 08

Re: Fwd: *** SECURITY information for gateway.bandsman.co.uk ***

2017-12-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/04/2017 09:08 AM, Nigel Horne wrote: I received a bunch of these today.  It may be blacklisting doit - in case it's doing it to something you really don't want it to gateway.bandsman.co.uk : Dec 4 08:17:02 : njh : a password is required ; TTY=pts/0 ;

Can CPANtesters provide data on BBC tickets?

2017-10-14 Thread James E Keenan
Fellow CPANtesters, Greetings from the 2017 Perl 5 Core Hackathon in Amsterdam! I am writing to you as a follow-up to a discussion which participants had this afternoon entitled "What Do We Want and Need from Smoke Testing?"

Is matrix again delayed behind fast-matrix?

2017-09-11 Thread James E Keenan
If I go to this page: http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Path I see that the most recent version of File-Path is 2.15. The first testers report on this version was generated on July 29. As of the time of my writing this, there have been 695 reports submitted, the most recent on

matrix fails to show 'Tester'

2017-08-17 Thread James E Keenan
This is much the same problem that I wrote about in this group in December 2015 (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/2015/12/msg3751.html). matrix.cpantesters.org is failing to identify me as the Tester who submitted a given report -- even when that identify is clearly

Re: Recent perl versions not appearing in "Perl version" drop-downbox

2017-08-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 08/10/2017 06:40 PM, Doug Bell wrote: Okay, I think I've fixed the code that generates this: It was being run in a DESTROY block, which means that the database connection may have gone away when it's attempted to be run, maybe. Nothing in any log shows an error to that effect, but that's

Re: /cgi-bin/view-report.cgi was not found on this server

2017-08-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 08/04/2017 01:01 AM, Jean-Damien Durand wrote: Hello FYI when clicking on a report using the regular matrix I am hitting this error. For example: - http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=MarpaX-ESLIF+2.0.14 , then -

Recent perl versions not appearing in "Perl version" drop-down box

2017-07-25 Thread James E Keenan
Today, I had occasion to go to this page: http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/U/UR.html#UR-0.46 I was trying to track down the CPANtesters report implied in this post: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131571#txn-1477071 ... a failure which presumably would have appeared in perl-5.27.0,

Re: reports flowing?

2017-04-06 Thread James E Keenan
On 04/05/2017 10:08 AM, Peter Karman wrote: This is just a sanity check. I notice that http://www.cpantesters.org/ says the last report was 2017-03-30. I had been checking this page http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SWISH-3+1.15 for several days since I first uploaded that version and I

Re: Test-Simple not being fully tested via CPANtesters

2017-02-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 02/05/2017 04:41 AM, Slaven Rezic wrote: [snip] To see the up-to-date test coverage you can switch to the "fast" matrix view --- this is the "Matrix via log.txt" link, the one with the tiny font. The Test-Simple coverage looks quite good, see

Re: Having a problem w/a mod, but don't think it is mod's bug (?);ideas?

2017-02-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 02/03/2017 06:45 PM, L A Walsh wrote: Forgive if this posts twice, but sent from wrong account. I'm trying to build TERM::ReadLine::Gnu and have been getting two types of failures. This is not the correct list on which to discuss this problem. perl.cpan.testers.discuss (and its mail

Test-Simple not being fully tested via CPANtesters

2017-02-04 Thread James E Keenan
CPAN distribution Test-Simple does not appear to be getting adequate coverage by CPANtesters. When I go to this page: # http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple # ... the main heading says: # CPAN Testers Matrix: Test-Simple 2.00_07 # If you click through to the

Re: How do I get an 'NA' result when external dependency is not met?

2016-11-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/11/2016 06:47 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: Add Devel::CheckBin to your configure prereqs, and then at the top of Makefile.PL: use Devel::CheckBin; check_bin('git'); Or, if you're using Dist::Zilla, just add this to dist.ini: [CheckBin] command = git This worked. See, e.g.,

Re: How do I get an 'NA' result when external dependency is not met?

2016-11-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/11/2016 06:47 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: Add Devel::CheckBin to your configure prereqs, and then at the top of Makefile.PL: use Devel::CheckBin; check_bin('git'); Thanks. I just uploaded a new version to CPAN. CPANtesters is still catching up from its outage, so it will probably be

How do I get an 'NA' result when external dependency is not met?

2016-11-11 Thread James E Keenan
My latest CPAN distribution (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-Git-MultiBisect/) requires perl-5.10.0 and, as its name suggests, has an external dependency on git. When a CPAN tester runs this distro on, say, perl-5.8.9, the run is characterized as 'NA' and the report (e.g.,

Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-28 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/28/2016 06:17 PM, James E Keenan wrote: On 03/27/2016 05:09 PM, Buddy Burden wrote: Guys, Okay, trying to track down what's causing a certain quite prolific failure in my initial module upload. Here's what I've been able to determine (I'm pretty confident of almost all these numbers

Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-28 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/27/2016 05:09 PM, Buddy Burden wrote: Guys, Okay, trying to track down what's causing a certain quite prolific failure in my initial module upload. Here's what I've been able to determine (I'm pretty confident of almost all these numbers): Are you familiar with

Re: Reports being logged without tester info; not showing upinmatrix

2015-12-17 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/16/2015 06:01 PM, James E Keenan wrote: On 12/16/2015 04:42 PM, Slaven Rezic wrote: James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> writes: On 12/16/2015 01:28 AM, Slaven Rezic wrote: James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> writes: Over the last few days I have tried to file CPAN

Re: Reports being logged without tester info; not showing upinmatrix

2015-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/16/2015 04:42 PM, Slaven Rezic wrote: James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> writes: On 12/16/2015 01:28 AM, Slaven Rezic wrote: James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> writes: Over the last few days I have tried to file CPAN test reports of various modules, including my own, now

Re: Reports being logged without tester info; not showing up inmatrix

2015-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/16/2015 01:28 AM, Slaven Rezic wrote: James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> writes: Over the last few days I have tried to file CPAN test reports of various modules, including my own, now that I have installed perl-5.22.1 on my older iBook G4. After considerable effort, I am able

Reports being logged without tester info; not showing up in matrix

2015-12-15 Thread James E Keenan
Over the last few days I have tried to file CPAN test reports of various modules, including my own, now that I have installed perl-5.22.1 on my older iBook G4. After considerable effort, I am able to run the tests (via the CPAN-Reporter route) and get output that looks like this:

Re: Is a mail server required to participate in cpantesters?

2015-10-09 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/09/2015 09:14 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: It was declared as a prereq -- do you remember how you installed libwww-perl? https://metacpan.org/source/GAAS/libwww-perl-6.05/Makefile.PL#L50 On this machine it has always been my practice to install libraries via the 'cpan' shell. This was

Re: using cpan to populate minicpan

2015-08-09 Thread James E Keenan
On 08/09/2015 09:43 AM, WANDA B Anon wrote: It seems to me that cpan downloads the most recent version of modules needed as prerequisites when they are not in minicpan. If they are not in minicpan, wouldn't it be nice if they were put there so they will be found next time? (or is this being

Let me testify ...

2015-06-07 Thread James E Keenan
... to the awesomeness of CPAN testers. Sitting in the hackathon room at YAPC::NA::2015 in Salt Lake City, I got time and focus to evaluate a pull request for List-Compare. After digesting the request and running benchmarks on it, I applied it as a patch and made a new release to CPAN as

testers.cpan.org not displaying most recent version of distribution in summary

2009-01-18 Thread James E Keenan
When I go to this page, http://www.cpantesters.org/show/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker.html#ExtUtils-ModuleMaker-0.51 ... I see an accurate summary of CPAN testers reports for the latest version of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker. However, when I go to this page, http://testers.cpan.org/author/JKEENAN.html

Has www.cpantesters.org fallen behind?

2008-11-06 Thread James E Keenan
A two-part question: 1. At http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Perl6-Say.html#0.12, the most recent test report I have for Perl6-Say is this one: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/10/msg2435183.html ... from October 14. But I know that there have been more recent tests,

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-07-05 Thread James E Keenan
On Jul 5, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Barbie wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:02:24PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:40:02PM -0400, David Golden wrote: There also seem to be some things in ~/tmp/ That's on linux. It's worse on Win32. Lots of stuff

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-07-04 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:40:02PM -0400, David Golden wrote: There also seem to be some things in ~/tmp/ That's on linux. It's worse on Win32. Lots of stuff winds up dumped in c:\. In one case, I think there were several thousand tiny directories. On *nix I

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-07-04 Thread James E Keenan
David Golden wrote: So I keep noticing litter in my home directory while running the smoker. It looks like either temp files or default locations for things. I consider that bad behavior for tests. I have been guilty of that *in the past*. During my rewrite of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker in

Re: Idea for a smoke setup: read-only home directory

2008-07-04 Thread James E Keenan
imacat wrote: In my test script I create a temporarily directory as the home directory and set the HOME environemnt variable to it. After the tests are finished that directory is removed with File::Path::rmtree() and the HOME environment variable is restored. A very good suggestion --