NAME

cpanm-reporter - send cpanm output to CPAN Testers

SETUP

New to CPAN Testers' reporting? No problem! Just run:

   > cpanm-reporter --setup

And we will walk you through everything you need :)

(if you already use CPAN::Reporter, you can safely skip the setup)

USAGE

Call cpanm as you normally would:

   > cpanm Moose Catalyst::Runtime Data::Printer ...

then, just call cpanm-reporter:

   > cpanm-reporter

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

   --version              Shows version number and exits

   --help                 Shows basic usage help and exits

   --build_dir=PATH       Where your build directory is, containing
                          each dist's subdir. Default: $HOME/.cpanm/latest-build

   --build_logfile=PATH   Where the build.log is. Default: $BUILD_DIR/build.log

   --verbose (or -v)      Extra output

   --quiet (or -q)        As little output as possible (voids -v)

   --setup                Sets up the CPAN Testers configuration for you

   --only=A::B,C::D,...   Only send reports for these modules

   --exclude=A::B,...     Don't send reports for these modules
   
   --dry-run              Prepare, but do not actually send reports

   --skip-history         Do not read nor write to the history file

DESCRIPTION

This app properly parses the output of cpanm ("build.log") to automatically generate and send reports to the CPAN Testers database.

"cpanm" has quickly become one of the most used CPAN clients out there, but it doesn't come with a native way to generate and send test reports to the CPAN Testers infrastructure. This standalone app is able to interact with your cpanm after you install a module, and do that for you.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

You can use configuration files with different names and locations by setting the following environment variables:

PERL_CPAN_REPORTER_DIR
The base directory in which your '"config.ini"' file resides. Defaults to your home directory (if you're using Linux or OS X) or to the 'my documents' folder (if you're running Windows).
PERL_CPAN_REPORTER_CONFIG
In case you don't want to change just the base directory but the entire file's path and name, you can set this variable to point at the new 'config.ini' file.

If you called "cpanm-reporter --setup", you can also set "PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT" to true and it will answer any prompted question automatically with its default value, if possible.

CAVEATS

This is a standalone tool that reads cpanm's "build.log" file, meaning it can potentially be run any time after cpanm has done its thing. As such, you must be cautious to only run this tool right after you run cpanm, otherwise your whole environment may have changed, rendering the report useless - maybe even turning it into a disservice.
As such, we will *only* parse build.log files last modified up to 30 minutes before. You can override this by passing the "--force" flag to cpanm-reporter, but please take good care to avoid sending bogus reports.
cpanm currently does not record the output into your build.log file if you pass the "verbose" argument to it, either "--verbose" or "-v". If you used those when installing dists, "cpanm-reporter" won't find anything to send :(
cpanm-reporter is an external, auxiliary tool to cpanm. Since they're not attached, you must take care not to change perls or local-libs between installing distributions with "cpanm" and generating/sending the reports with "cpanm-reporter". If you're not a power user, you don't have to worry about this. Just remember to run cpanm-reporter immediately after cpanm and everything will be fine :)
As an added precaution, cpanm-reporter will skip build.log entries in which the Perl version recorded in the build.log is different than the Perl version that is generating the report. The entries will be skipped silently unless the "--verbose" or "-v" flag is passed. This version check can be ignored by passing the "--ignore-versions" flag to cpanm-reporter. Obviously, this is discouraged since it would result in the sending of bogus reports.

AUTHOR

Breno G. de Oliveira "<garu@cpan.org>"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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