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

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:38:58PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Craig A. Berry wrote:

> >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.
> 
> I can supply you with a GIT program that can clone a repository.  I can 
> not get the other functions working for a while due to limitations in 
> the GNV ports of several utilities and some other problems.
> 
> If you (or anyone else) wishes to pursue that, drop a mail on the 
> vms-perl list and I will respond with the details.
> 
> I do not know if the clone function can pull down a specific branch.
> It is also pretty slow.  It takes at least 1/2 for the git clone to pull 
> down Perl on my DS-10.

blead, maint-5.10 and maint-5.8 (at least) are still available via rsync.
Does that help?

If anyone else on the VMSperl list has the time and enthusiasm to pursue
this, and get a VMS machine smoking regularly, that would be a great benefit
to us non-VMS users.

Nicholas Clark