Perl > cpan-testers-discuss > June 2008

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'm considering ...

The first test I ran immediately after installing 1.15_52 was a FAIL. Retrying same test without CPAN::Reporter was a PASS. I suspect CPAN::Reporter 1.15_52 is broken. The module was GameClock and ...

Hi, I suddenly noticed I have access to a freebsd 4.7 box with a 5.8.4 version of perl, and since I haven't seen many test reports on this OS / perl version, I decided to get a couple of tests ...

In smoking, I have unexpected error- the emails used to go out, now it does not, and the error handling around that seems to not work due to a method not being written/coded. (maybe?) I put this on ...

Hi. In chasing a bug flushed out on my smoker, Peter Flanigan temporarily added an "exit 0" to Makefile.PL if @INC matched my particular unique path to perl. That's obviously a quick hack, but in ...

This might be a bit off-topic for this list, but in case there's a good reason that is obvious to everyone but myself and can be explained in a few seconds... ...having discovered the nice charts at ...

If so, please consider upgrading CPANPLUS to the latest dev version in order to get META.yml "configure_requires" support. Now that it's being advocated as a way to solve configure time dependencies, ...

I am familiar with using config.ini with a line such as: smtp_server=smtp.google.com but how do I set the port? With: smtp_server=smtp.google.com:587 ? or smtp_port=587 ? Thanks.

I've been looking at some of the reports that aren't parsing correctly, and noticed that some are reporting dates that are set by badly configured machines. One such report is 155174. In this ...

Yes. When CPAN::Reporter::record_command() is given a timeout, it executes the command via a wrapper. The wrapper forks, the parent has an alarm for the timeout. The child creates a new process group ...

If anyone is using a dev release of CPAN.pm for smoke testing, please note that Andreas just released 1.92_63 in which we killed the CPAN::PERL5INC experiment. If you are using a prior CPAN dev, ...

Dear Maxim, Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. Sorry for the reply delay. Regarding to your question, On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Maxim G wrote: I see. In this case, I would suggest you exit ...

1.15_55 is out on CPAN. Major changes since 1.15: - Fixed: would disconnect from terminal input when running interactively with an inactivity timeout; fixed by avoiding use of setpgrp(), but now ...