NAME

cpantester - test CPAN contributions and submit reports to cpan-testers@perl.org

SYNOPSIS

usage: /scripts/cpantester.pl [options]

OPTIONS -h this help screen -i interactive (defies -v) -v verbose -V version info

DESCRIPTION

This script features automated testing of new contributions that have been submitted to CPAN and consist of a former package, i.e. have either a Makefile.PL or a Build.PL and tests.

Test::Reporter is used to send the test reports.

CONFIGURATION FILE

A .cpantesterrc may be placed in the appropriate home directory.

# Example
host  = pause.perl.org
rdir  = incoming/
dir   = /home/user/cpantests
track = track.dat
mail  = user@host.tld (name)

CAVEATS

Prerequisites missing

It's supposed to skip them at the moment, but I doubt some regexps are seriously broken and need further investigation.

RSS

File indexes are received by Net::FTP's ls(), though it's my intention to make it fetch the RSS-feed.

SEE ALSO

Test::Reporter, testers.cpan.org