Re: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard

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Re^2: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Oct 08, 2005 at 18:40 UTC
Talk about a rapid response! Thanks! But, IIUYC, I can't get anything until the distribution has made it to ftp://ftp.cpan.org -- at least not through the cpan shell. For normal installation purposes, that's fine. But I was wondering if there was something I could use (other than manual downloading) for a quick look-see-and-test. Jim Keenan UPDATE one day later: I've decided to try hacking something which uses `LWP::Simple::getstore()` to retrieve the file from http://www.cpan.org, tests it, and sends a report with Test::Reporter. I'll post it when I get it somewhat functional. Thanks for all who have read this far. UPDATE 2: Here is the aforepromised hack. It DWIMs with one key exception: The mail sent isn't showing up immediately on perl.cpan.testers (either web interface or newsgroup). This is the first time I've attempted to send mail from within a Perl program, so maybe there's something I don't understand. OTOH, when I've sent ordinary mail to that list, it has sometimes taken 12 hours to get posted. In any event, have at it gang! Read more... (3 kB) Jim Keenan	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2005 at 18:44 UTC
I think you can also set `http://www.cpan.org/` (or maybe `http://www.cpan.org/CPAN/` or something) as a mirror in your mirror list. CPAN.pm uses LWP to retrieve the files. I use a local mirror mounted via samba and have `file://server/cpan/minicpan` as my top mirror in the CPAN list.	[reply]
Re^4: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Oct 08, 2005 at 19:14 UTC
`http://www.cpan.org/` appears to be the correct setting. I notice that whenever today I have attempted to 'get' or 'test' a module, the shell gives me a message like this: `cpan> get Test::Tester CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/jimk/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:01:00 GMT` [download] ... which suggests to me that I'm not getting the hot-off-the-keyboard distributions because the Metadata file has not yet been updated. Is that the obstacle? Jim Keenan	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by randyk (Parson) on Oct 09, 2005 at 04:53 UTC
Re^3: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by ewilhelm (Novice) on Oct 09, 2005 at 07:20 UTC
How hot do you want it? If they have a subversion or CVS repo, maybe you want to check that out so you can just update and set $PERL5LIB for a while to play with the new toys. I've been doing something crazy with symlinks for over a year now. It doesn't get much hotter!	[reply]
Re^4: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Oct 09, 2005 at 12:22 UTC
Well, now that you put it that way, maybe not quite that hot. I'm essentially looking to do a quick test on distros with which I'm already familiar and get a test report out once the distro hits CPAN.	[reply]