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 intervall run in polling mode
intervall: seconds to wait until poll again
-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/cpantester
track = /home/user/cpantester/track.dat
mail = user@host.tld (name)
rss = 0
rss_feed = http://search.cpan.org/recent.rdfUpon errors the coincidence will be reported via mail to login@localhost.
CAVEATS
Prerequisites
Distributions are skipped upon the detection of missing prerequisites.
System requirements
Tests on Operating systems besides Linux/UNIX aren't supported yet.