Re: TPF Devel::Cover grant report January 2013

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:53:10 +0100, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hours worked:
>
>   05.01   9:20
>   19.01   2:30
>   23.01   1:15
>   26.01   8:25
>
>   Total  21:30
>
> Total hours worked on grant: 221:30

+1

Thank you for working on this. :)



Further notes on the content of the report:


> I'm happy to announce that that Christian Walde (Mithaldu) has agreed to
> manage the second half of the grant in Florian's stead, and I look
> forward to working with him.

Glad to be able to help you with this. :)

> Then I looked into a couple of cpantesters reports which showed a problem
> on Windows.  I couldn't repeat the failures, and it seemed that only one
> tester had the problem, on version 0.98.  Version 0.99 seems not to have
> shown any failures, so I'll chalk that up to cosmic rays or something.

I can explain this one.

Older Perls have an odd bug that causes $ENV{PERL5LIB} of over 65k chars  
to be completely ignored on Windows 7, resulting in a near-empty @INC.  
This happens in his case as he's running an automated smoker which does  
not actually install dists, but only saves them to cpan/build and adds  
them to PERL5LIB. On windows below 7 this does not happen, as the 65k  
limit is correct there and the process won't even start before reaching  
the perl interpreter code. On higher Perls the limit is observed properly.

So, if you get spurious errors, check their PERL5LIB:

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/dfc0a61f-6c90-1014-b3bb-e7381ede6b02

If it's massive, ask the smoker to upgrade to Perl5 16.0 or newer. :)

Related ticket: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=87322

> David Cantrell added JavaScript to filter results in html_basic and sent  
> me a pull request.

This is pretty cool, is there a reason that wasn't also added to the  
default html output?

-- 
With regards,
Christian Walde