Re: new releases of cpan-openbsd-smoker

On 5/18/22 16:12, Slaven Rezic wrote:
>> James E Keenan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> hat am 
>> 18.05.2022 16:26 geschrieben:
>>
> [...]
>> The problem I've been encountering recently is that the
>> Task-CPAN-Reporter stack includes IO-Socket-SSL, and the CPAN maintainer
>> of IO-Socket-SSL has given up on trying to maintain that module on
>> OpenBSD. See, for example,
>> https://github.com/noxxi/p5-io-socket-ssl/issues/115 
>> <https://github.com/noxxi/p5-io-socket-ssl/issues/115>. While the OpenBSD
>> people do a good job of maintaining their *port* of IO-Socket-SSL via
>> patches, that port is only intended to work with the *system* perl in a
>> given version of OpenBSD. If you try to use 'cpan' or 'cpanm' to
>> install something that has IO::Socket::SSL in its dependency chain
>> (e.g., Task::CPAN::Reporter), you will get test failures.
> Actually I think there's no need to use Task::CPAN::Reporter. Just 
> install plain CPAN::Reporter and make sure to use a http URL in your 
> .cpanreporter/config.ini.
> 

Slaven to the rescue once again!

Going back a decade or more, when I was first attempting to submit 
reports to CPANtesters, I found CPAN::Reporter very difficult to use 
consistently.  Granted, that probably reflected my own ignorance more 
than the module.  Nonetheless, I held off on CPANtesters for many years.

In recent years, when I've had access to this FreeBSD server, I've 
installed quite a few VMs and -- on the FreeBSD servers in particular -- 
I found that Task::CPAN::Reporter Just Worked(TM).  So that's why I 
tried it in my OpenBSD VMs as well, and for several years it Just Worked 
there, too.  So I never had reason to think that I should "downgrade" 
from https to http in my .cpanreporter/config.ini.

http://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt is now being populated with 
reports from this OpenBSD-6.9 VM and a perl somewhere between 5.35.10 
and 5.35.11.  So I look forward to submitting several hundred CPANtester 
reports once perl-5.36.0-RC0 comes out.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan