NAME
cpantest - Report test results of a package
retrieved from CPAN
DESCRIPTION
cpantest uniformly
posts package test results in support of the cpan-testers project.
See for
details.
USAGE
cpantest -g grade [ -nc ] [ -auto ] [ -p package ]
[ -t text | -f file ] [ email-addresses ]
For MacPerl, save as a droplet, and drop a module archive or
unpacked folder on the droplet.
OPTIONS
- -g grade
- grade indicates the success or
failure of the package's builtin tests, and is one of:
grade meaning
----- -------
pass all tests included with the package passed
fail some tests failed
na the package does not work on this platform
unknown the package did not include tests
- -p package
- package is the name of the package
you are testing. If you don't supply a value on the command line,
you will be prompted for one.
- -nc
- No comment; you will not be prompted to
supply a comment about the package.
- -t text
- A short comment text line.
- -f file
- A file containing comments; '-' will make
it read from STDIN. Note that an editor will
still appear after reading this file.
- -auto
- Autosubmission (non-interactive); you
won't be prompted to supply any information that you didn't provide
on the command line. Implies -nc.
- email-addresses
- A list of additional email addresses that
should be cc:'d in this report (typically, the package's
author).
AUTHORS
This version of the 'cpantest'
script was adapted by Adam J. Foxson <> for
Test::Reporter, and is based on Autrijus Tang's <autrijus@autrijus.org>
adaptations for CPANPLUS, which is in turn
based upon the original script by Kurt Starsinic <>
with various patches from the CPAN Testers
<>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003 Adam J. Foxson. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2002 Autrijus Tang. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1999 Kurt Starsinic. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.