Re: testing CPAN-ability without CPAN?

Steffen Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> [...]
> >>- 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?
> 
> Aside from the suggestion from Thomas Klausner, you could subclass 
> CPAN::Mini to do just that. Add Module::Dependency and you should get 
> the system up and running rather quickly. I fact, it would probably be a 
> really good idea to make the result availlable on CPAN as 
> CPAN::Mini::Something. (Ask the modules list for a good namespace choice 
> or #perl or Ricardo Signes, the author of CPAN::Mini.)

	Heh, last night I created a new module 'Test::CPAN' in my CVS tree.
I still hadn't figured out quite *how* I was going to test it though. I had
gotten as far as:

	perl -MCPAN -e 'chdir("dev/DBIx-Transaction"); my $d =
CPAN::Distribution->new(build_dir => "/home/faraway/dev/DBIx-Transaction",
ID => "dev/DBIx-Transaction"); print $d->test'

	Which works great for Makefile.PL-based distributions, but if I want
to unpack Module::Build-based distributions, I have to "./Build distdir"
first, since CPAN.pm doesn't actually seem to know about Build.PL's...

	I've got a few personal programming hours before xmas to look into
this further... hadn't considered pestering people in an IRC channel before,
what network is it on? :)

		- Tyler