Re: First Time CPAN Testing on Windows

Thanks for your experience Chris, I'll try to squeeze in an installation of
PDL on one of my virtual servers to see what happens.

Best,

Charlie Gonzalez
(E) [email protected]
Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>



On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 8:29 AM Chris Marshall <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm not sure the best way to address these issues, but PDL (the Perl Data
> Language module) has a large XS/C component with autogenerated code which
> needs a lot of memory to build, a working compiler, and often extra time
> since if the memory is tight and swap to disk happens then the jobs can
> take very long to complete.
>
> --Chris
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:25 PM Doug Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi! Thanks for helping with smoking CPAN modules!
>>
>> As far as I know, you've set up everything you can correctly. Running a
>> tester can be troublesome, as you're finding out.
>>
>> As for having to hit Enter sometimes, I think that might be related to
>> some settings for your CPAN client. You should go into the CPAN shell (type
>> "cpan" and hit Enter) and enter the following commands:
>>
>> o conf auto_commit yes
>> - This makes sure that every config change we make next will be
>> automatically written
>> o conf prerequisites_policy follow
>> - This prevents needing to hit "Enter" to install prereqs
>> o conf use_prompt_default yes
>> - This prevents well-behaved modules from prompting you for input
>> o conf halt_on_failure yes
>> - This prevents installs from continuing if a prereq is missing
>> o conf inactivity_timeout 3600
>> - This causes the CPAN client to wait for an hour for a process to
>> complete (including the tests) before giving up on it. The default is 0,
>> which means to wait forever
>>
>> Documentation on these settings can be found here:
>> https://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN/FirstTime.html
>>
>> I do not, myself, run a smoke tester, so if I've got something wrong, the
>> long-time testers on this list should hopefully chime in.
>>
>> Doug Bell
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2018, at 10:43 PM, Charlie Gonzalez <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello CPAN Testers,
>>
>> Today I managed to set up a CPAN Smoke tester running on Windows Server
>> 2016  and Strawberry Perl 5.28.0  \o/  YAY!!!, but I did hit a few walls
>> trying to get there.
>>
>> First I want to mention that the  CPAN Testers
>> <https://qa.perl.org/cpan-testers/> page is concise and to the point.
>> This page lead me to the CPAN Testers WIKI <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/>
>> from which I went on to learn more about CPAN Testing at the  Quick Start
>> <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart> page.
>>
>> Please Note that I am using Google cloud to setup window server
>> instances.
>>
>> In my first attempt, I installed CPAN::Reporter but had run into an issue
>> where I was unable to install Data::UUID module  (
>> https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/28 )
>> this instance was then deleted due to the fact that I was not able to
>> RDP into the box ( The instance was 1 cpu and 3.3 gig ram server ).
>>
>> In my second attempt, I built another server ( with the same specs as the
>> first attempt )  but this time I install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and had the
>> c:\tmp workaround setup that was noted in  (
>> https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/24 ). I started the
>> CPAN::Reporter::Smoker program but noticed that I didn't have any test
>> results sent to metabase ( http://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt
>> - Thanks to Jim Keenan for this link and the troubleshooting help ). I
>> didn't setup my metabase-profile so I found a link to install
>> Task-CPAN-Reporter where I could install all of CPAN::Reporter dependencies
>> and setup my metabase-profile afterwards. while setting up my
>> metabase-profile it turns out I didn't have the proper permission settings
>> on the CPAN directory (
>> https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/28d88611e9abae283ccddf39a199832d ).
>> after resolving my metabase configuration I was able to start  a test
>> install of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
>> <https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/b3c9671efc2ab51173e56d817e8d817e>
>> and begin the Smoker process again.
>>
>> Everything was working just fine until I see that my server had hung for
>> some reason, I avoided contacting Google for support and moved forward with
>> upgrading the hardware to a 2 CPU and 5.5 Gig ram server.  Also I sometimes
>> have to go to the command prompt and press the enter key while a make is
>> running ( sometimes it just hangs there )
>>
>> Can anyone in this list recommended specs for a Windows server  for CPAN
>> Testing?
>>
>> Any pointers or tips on how I could have done this better I greatly
>> appreciate it.
>>
>>
>> Charlie Gonzalez
>> (E) [email protected]
>> Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>
>>
>>
>>