The uploaded file Test-Smoke-1.17.tar.gz has entered CPAN as http://search.cpan.org/author/ABELTJE/Test-Smoke/ Here are the major changes since 1.16 (from ReleaseNotes): I have done a lot of refactoring and wrote loads of new code and documentation since v1.16. 1 smokeperl.pl is the new way to smoke. It is a wrapper script around good ol' mktest.pl and mkovz.pl It also uses the backends to synctree.pl and mailrpt.pl 2 configsmoke.pl helps you create a (mandatory) configuration for smokeperl.pl. This configuration is stored in a separate file, so that it is possible to have different configurations. One can think of different perl versions or different compiler versions. 3 New ways to sync the source-tree (see synctree.pl and Test::Smoke::Syncer). 4 Distribution now contains Mail::Sendmail (esp. for Win32) 5 -Uuseperlio will now only do one (1) testrun and it's back in perlcurrent.cfg 6 An implementation of Nick Clark's 'Hardlink Forest', with the extra --forest <directory> option to mktest.pl. This will change the way to make distclean to another (hopefully faster). 7 The subject of the message containing the report has changed: Smoke [perlversion] <patch> <summary> <os> - <osvers> (<arch>/<cpus>) 8 If your platform supports UTF-8 locales you will now be able to do an extra pass of make test with $ENV{LC_ALL} set to such a locale. 9 All the backends now have a front end script (synctree.pl, patchtree.pl, mailrpt.pl and W32Configure.pl 10 There now is a --smartsmoke option that will exit after the SYNCTREE step if the the patchlevel is the same as before. 11 Some hacks are in place to support the smoking of perl-5.6.2 to be, as it doesn't need the extended PerlIO testing we use for 5.8+. 12 To configure Test::Smoke for smoking perl-5.6.x(MAINT): $ perl configsmoke.pl -p smoke56x To configre Test::Smoke for smoking perl-5.8.x(MAINT): $ perl configsmoke.pl -p smoke58x 13 I think I finally got make install to do what I want. 14 We now include the hostname of the machine in the report for easy recognition. 15 The shellscript (smokecurrent.sh/smokecurrent.cmd) implements a sort of lock machanism, so that "overlapping" smokes are prevented. Good luck, Abe -- I think this requires more thought, therefore I'm excising the "promise" from perldelta and replacing it with more non-committal mumbling. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi on p5p @ 2002-05-27