Re: testing CPAN-ability without CPAN?

Steffen Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
> 
> there are several things you can do about this.
> 
> - Upload to CPAN as a developer release. Theser are marked using 
> versions of the form '0.54_23'. (The underscore is the significant 
> part.) Thus you get all the good automatic CPAN testing benefits.

	Hadn't thought of that.. I might do that. :) Seems like I'd be
unveiling a bit before I was ready, but that's better than nothing.

> - Run "perl Build.PL", "./Build test" to run your tests as your users would.
> - Use "CPAN::Mini" to create a local CPAN mirror quasy on the fly.

	The problem there is that it mirrors all of CPAN. A lot of
bandwidth, not exactly a reuseable trick, unless CPAN::Mini has an option to
mirror only packages X and Y, and all packages that depend on them?

	Cheers,
		Tyler