Re: smoking VMS (was Re: maint-5.10 status on VMS)

On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:35:33PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> I've finally got Test::Smoke mostly working on VMS except for my  
>> local
>> mail configuration, thus the manual attachment here.  It shows the
>
> Ooh. ooh. ooh. ooh.
>
> What will it take to get the "mail" bit sorted, so that it can run
> automatically? And run automatically on blead too?


I've run it successfully with both blead and maint, and I've  
implemented support in Test::Smoke for the native VMS mail utility and  
successfully sent myself smoke reports with it.  One approach to  
getting mail to places it needs to go would be to subscribe to one or  
another perl.org mailing list with the account on each machine that  
will be generating smoke reports (these are on my home network and I  
don't normally use them for e-mail).  Another approach would be to add  
support to Test::Smoke to use MIME::Lite's authentication features and  
send via an external smtp server, though that would involve leaving a  
password sitting around in clear text.  Bram has now suggested a third  
possibility, which is interesting.  I will now go and read the  
Test::Smoke FAQ and find out what I'm supposed to be doing :-).

Oh, and you used the word "automatically," which still needs some  
work.  I'm currently running rsync on Mac OS X in order to get  
the .patch file so we know what we're smoking, then generating a  
zipball and moving it to ~/Sites, then kicking off a job on the VMS  
side that uses curl to pull it across and run the smoke test.  When a  
tuit or two present themselves, there are lots of different approaches  
to coordinating and automating all of this.
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