Re: First Time CPAN Testing on Windows

Charlie Gonzalez <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello CPAN Testers,
>
[...]
> 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 )

Hello Charlie,

I smoke rarely on Windows VMs, but I also encountered strange hangs in
the smoking process. In my case it seems that Capture::Tiny was causing
the hangs, probably related to
https://github.com/cpan-testers/CPAN-Reporter/issues/28

To workaround this problem, I wrote a script which uses some heuristics
to detect such hanging processes, and kills it. It can be found at:
https://github.com/eserte/srezic-misc/blob/master/scripts/capture-tiny-watcher.pl

Maybe the reason for your hangs are the same, but I wouldn't be
surprised if there are also other problems on Windows systems.

Regards,
    Slaven

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