Earlier today I wanted to install git on Windows so that I could keep my distroprefs synced between smokers. I almost installed Git for Windows but I waited.
A little bit ago, I was asked to test a new version of Net::Printer (after I submitted a bug four days ago that the tests were hanging on Windows) which resided in a GitHub repo. There was this shiny button labeled "Clone in Windows" which I clicked. I was taken to GitHub for Windows which I downloaded and installed. I already like this better than…
I started smoke testing on Windows a short time ago. I already had Strawberry Perl 5.12.3 and CPAN::Reporter. I installed CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and started it up.
Then I did the same thing on my laptop that was running Strawberry Perl 5.16.2.
I quickly discovered that many modules will hang during the make or make test phase. I looked around the CPAN Testers Wiki and found out about Distroprefs (http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/Distroprefs). I didn't pull down anyone's repo though. I just started compiling a list of my own one by one as I encountered problems (making sure to…
File::LinkDir 1.02 is on its way to a CPAN mirror near you.
Two changes went into this release.
- The link-file script will be installed now. (Hinrik)
- The --add-ignore option works properly now. (Matt)
I'd like to thank Philip Durbin for pointing out that --add-ignore wasn't working properly.
Tonight I decided to install a variety of perl versions on the desktop PC where I run Arch Linux. Rather than kick them all off manually, I whipped up a bash script wrapper around perlbrew.
It loops through all of the versions of perl I'm interested in. It starts perlbrew with the specified options but backgrounded. When the build.log shows up, it sends keystrokes to tmux window 4 telling it tail the build.log and brings perlbrew to the foreground. When the install is finished, it sends keystrokes to tmux window 4 telling it stop tailing the file and moves the build.log out of the wa…
Connecting to Oracle with a proxy connection like this:
We recently updated DBI to 1.620 and DBD::Oracle to 1.44 (late last week I think). Today I saw an error that I have never seen before (but should have). "ORA-02391: exceeded simultaneous SESSIONS_PER_USER limit" You see otheruser has a profile that limits SESSIONS_PER_USER to one. We're creating between one and eleven of these database connections simultaneously in different processes.
So I tried it with the older install that was using DBI 1.616 …
I'm married with 2 girls. By day, I work as a Senior Design Engineer (full time Perl programmer) for EFJohnson Technologies, a Land Mobile Radio company, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. By night, I play various games as the mood strikes me. (Lately it's CPAN smoke testing.)