NAME
cpantester - Test CPAN contributions and submit reports to cpan-testers@perl.org
SYNOPSIS
usage: cpantester.pl [options]OPTIONS
-h this help screen
-i interactive (defies -v)
-p run in polling mode
-v verbose
-V version infoDESCRIPTION
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)Upon errors/exits the coincidence will be reported via mail to login@localhost.
CAVEATS
Prerequisites
Distributions are skipped upon the detection of missing prerequisites.
RSS
File indexes are received by Net::FTP's ls(), though it's my intention to make it fetch the RSS-feed.