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 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/cpantester
track		= /home/user/cpantester/track.dat
mail		= user@host.tld (name)
rss		= 0
rss_feed	= http://search.cpan.org/recent.rdf

MAIL

Upon errors, the coincidence will be reported via mail to login@localhost.

CAVEATS

System requirements

Tests on Operating systems besides Linux/UNIX aren't supported yet.

SEE ALSO

Test::Reporter, testers.cpan.org