20.12.2008
Fetching CPAN::Reporter information
CPAN (1.92..) has some nice new features. I wrote some entries about my
CPAN smoke testing. I showed some screenshots about the testing, however
the build information is useful on the shell, too. When you decide to
install stuff using the CPAN module, you can ask CPAN to show you
the test report about a module. Just use the nice reports function from
the CPAN module and type in the name of the module you would like to
have reported. Just start the CPAN shell by typing perl -MCPAN
-eshell or call the cpan command. Here is an example
of a typical session:
rhaen@smoker$ cpan CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.80) Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9205) ReadLine support available (maybe install Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANxxl?) cpan[1]> reports Error Distribution: S/SH/SHLOMIF/Error-0.17015.tar.gz CPAN: CPAN::DistnameInfo loaded ok (v0.07) CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.21) Fetching 'http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/Error.yaml'... +PASS 5.8.9 on Linux 2.6.16.60-0.31-default (s390x-linux) +PASS 5.8.9 on Linux 2.6.16.60-0.31-default (s390x-linux-thread-multi) +PASS 5.8.9 on Freebsd 7.0-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int) *+PASS 5.10.0 on Netbsd 5.0_beta (i386-netbsd-thread-multi) +PASS 5.10.0 on Freebsd 7.0-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int) See http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/Error.html for detailsThe platform you are on is marked with an asterisk. So this module has been built and successfully passed all the tests. It's very likely that it'll install on your computer as well. Perls CPAN tools advanced over time - explore the wonders of Perl!
