August 2010 Archives

Temp Directory "Bug"

So I wanted to install Dist::Zilla and give it try so I fired up the cpan client. A few of the tests failed in a dependency, Config::INI: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2010/08/msg7663252.html.

When I saw the failure, I traced it back to File::Temp::tempfile. I filled a bug report (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60340). Tim Jenness was quick to follow up on the bug and suggest that I try testing File::Spec::Win32 to see what it said with -T. (You'll see the results in the bug report previously mentioned.)

File::Spec::Win32 tries to use some weird…

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user-pic 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.)