Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-11 Thread Kang-min Liu
On 2012/11/9, at 下午3:14, "Fields, Christopher J" wrote: > > We have this set up for the bioperl project, it's pretty easy: > > https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/blob/master/.travis.yml > https://travis-ci.org/bioperl/bioperl-live > > We haven't added all dependencies to it yet but it wor

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-09 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Nov 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Alex Muntada wrote: > + David Cantrell: > >> it shouldn't be too difficult to write a cron job that will untar a clean >> perl with no modules installed, and test your stuff whenever needed. > > FWIW, you can setup Travic CI in GitHub repos that test your modules >

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-09 Thread Alex Muntada
+ David Cantrell: > it shouldn't be too difficult to write a cron job that will untar a clean > perl with no modules installed, and test your stuff whenever needed. FWIW, you can setup Travic CI in GitHub repos that test your modules on several perlbrew installs each time you push changes to a re

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-07 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:39:38PM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David Cantrell on Tuesday 06 November 2012: > >By testing your code before releasing it? ... For the few of my dists > >that I care most about,I re-test them every so often to make sure that > >CPAN didn't break them. > The pr

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-06 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Cantrell on Tuesday 06 November 2012: >> So how would I fix the dependency problem if I don't even know about >> it? > >By testing your code before releasing it? ... For the few of my dists >that I care most about,I re-test them every so often to make sure that >CPAN didn't break the

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:27:25AM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:54:00PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a > > > module but fails to install a d

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread Andreas Koenig
Shmuel Fomberg writes: > My memory is a bit fuzzy, (it was about three years ago) but it was about > handling 64 bit numbers. The compilation switches were use64bitint and > use64bitall, that if the former was true and the letter was false it caused > Math::BigInt to give wrong results. > So I ta

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread Shmuel Fomberg
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andreas Koenig wrote: > Shmuel Fomberg writes: > > > I remember that with the Data::ParseBinary I had to dig around an find > which > > compilation option caused my tests to fail... that was not fun at all. > > Can you explain what the specific problem was? Maybe w

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread Andreas Koenig
Shmuel Fomberg writes: > I remember that with the Data::ParseBinary I had to dig around an find which > compilation option caused my tests to fail... that was not fun at all. Can you explain what the specific problem was? Maybe we can learn from it a bit. -- andreas

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread Shmuel Fomberg
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:54:00PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a > module > > but fails to install a dependency, what happens? > The report will be discarded. > So the

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread Shmuel Fomberg
> > Hi All. > > > > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a > module > > but fails to install a dependency, what happens? > > I'd count it as a bug, and file a report that way. > > For example, if their module depended on Math::Complex, and they failed to > set up the de

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:54:00PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a module > but fails to install a dependency, what happens? The report will be discarded. > Who should I convince to make such a failure similar to test fail? No-o

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread David Oswald
author, or add the missing dependency to my own PMPREQ until the dependency's author is able to become responsive. --Original Message-- From: John M. Gamble To: Shmuel Fomberg Cc: module-authors Subject: Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies Sent: Nov 5, 2012 9:04 AM On

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread John M. Gamble
On Mon, November 5, 2012 1:54 am, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > Hi All. > > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a module > but fails to install a dependency, what happens? > > Who should I convince to make such a failure similar to test fail? > Or maybe mark it as failure to

Re: CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-05 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > Hi All. > > Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a module > but fails to install a dependency, what happens? > > Who should I convince to make such a failure similar to test fail? > Or maybe mark it as failure to

CPAN testers: failure installing dependencies

2012-11-04 Thread Shmuel Fomberg
Hi All. Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a module but fails to install a dependency, what happens? Who should I convince to make such a failure similar to test fail? Or maybe mark it as failure to all the modules that depend on the failed module? I seek to do it