[pm-h] April Talk suggestion: perlall

[G. Wade Johnson]

Thanks, Reini.

You're now on the schedule for April.

G. Wade

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:12:36 -0600
Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:

> I have several talk topics, but I think App::perlall is good for
> April.
> 
> Introducing App::perlall, a better perlbrew and testing tool
> 
> perlall does something like perlbrew, creating perl's for various
> versions and with various features
> just the sane way. I.e. if possible it uses the Configure defaults and
> does not need messing with
> PATH and PERL5LIB and allows having several parallel global perls at
> once.
> 
> With all these perls - and more perls created like this in vm's - it
> allows easy testing and
> maintenance of your perls.
> This way you don't rely on cpantesters to get back with reports on
> crazy versions,
> perl features or platforms, you test it by yourself before you upload
> it to CPAN.
> 
> .e.g
> cd Perl/MyModule
> perlall maketest
> 
> does
> for $p in /usr/local/bin/perl5*
>   do
>   make clean
>   $p Makefile.PL # or Build.PL
>   make
>   make test | tee log.test-$(basename $p)
> done
> 
> "perlall testvm" copies your perl module in cwd to all vm's and
> performs "perlall maketest" there and copies the log files back.
> "perlall do" runs commands for all your perls.
> 
> I describe my environment (kvm setup, building tricky perls esp. with
> windows, ...)
> and show several useful examples and utils, esp. with the logfiles,
> which are like your private copy of cpantesters reports.


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