Re: CPAN::Reporter and strawberry perl portable

On 20.11.2011 19:58, chm wrote:
> It would be very convenient if Strawberry Perl
> (portable and regular editions) included modules
> needed for CPAN Testers submissions.
>
> Whenever I set up a new strawberry perl portable
> (SPP) sandbox for testing, I always have to
> redo the install and update to support the new
> metabase and CPAN::Reporter.  One issue with
> running CPAN::Reporter for test reports with SPP
> is that the default directory seems to be set to
> C:\.cpanreporter rather than a folder in the SPP
> root directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>

Hi Chris,

there are basically 2 kind of issues

1/ troubles with Strawberry Portable Perl (SPP)
2/ bugs in CPAN::Reporter

As for 1/ there were a lot of changes during the last week(s) in SPP; 
please take the latest beta from 
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/p5.14.2.1-RC/ for your testing (I 
know that you prefer to have 5.12.x but we are currently focused only on 
fixing 5.14 builds).

In the latest SPP the issue with  C:\.cpanreporter should not happen any 
more as in SPP the "pseudo" home directory is located in 
"<portable_perl_root>\data" directory (providing that the module in 
question uses File::HomeDir - which is the case of CPAN::Reporter).

The following works for me with the latest beta of SPP:

Let us have portable strawberry perl in z:\portable4testing

z:\portable4testing>  cpan -fi Task::CPAN::Reporter

z:\portable4testing>  mkdir z:\portable4testing\data\.cpanreporter\

z:\portable4testing>  metabase-profile -o z:\portable4testing\data\.cpanreporter\metabase_id.json

z:\portable4testing>  cpan
cpan>  o conf init test_report
cpan>  o conf commit
cpan>  q


Now the troubles marked 2/ (CPAN::Reporter related)

*/ there are some failing tests - on the latest SPP 5.14.2.1-beta 
t/03_config_file.t + t/70_darwin_move_config.t - which is the reason why 
you need "-fi" for installation

*/ in theory it should be enough to run "cpan> o conf init test_report" 
just after Task::CPAN::Reporter installation (it calls 
"metabase-profile" command automatically) however on my Windows box it 
stucks at this point:

Would you like to run 'metabase-profile' now to create 'Z:\portable4testing\data\.cpanreporter\metabase_id.json'? [y]
Running [Z:\PORTAB~1\perl\bin\metabase-profile.BAT --output Z:\portable4testing\data\.cpanreporter\metabase_id.json --email [email protected] --secret 123456789]...
Enter full name:

... where I am not able to enter the requested full name. Which is IMHO 
an issue in CPAN::Reporter not SPP.

This is the reason for creating 
z:\portable4testing\data\.cpanreporter\metabase_id.json manually before 
running "cpan> o conf init test_report".

*/ the good news is that CPAN::Reporter does use File::HomeDir (not 
$ENV{HOME} or $ENV{USERPROFILE}) which makes it portable-perl-friendly

To sum up: if you take the latest Strawberry Portable Perl beta it 
should "somehow" work + I might be a good idea to report remaining 
CPAN::Reporter issues to proper place.

--
kmx