Figure out what the error is on Travis.

[ghost]

The tests that fail to run on Travis with 5.14.4 seem to run OK with Perl 5.14.4 on osx. So I could not replicate this behaviour.

[jagtalon]

@bpaschen Couldn't replicate it on my machine either. Thanks for trying it out, though!

[mintsoft]

@jagtalon I notice that 5.16 seems to pass now, however 5.14 is bombing-out with an issue installing Xslate. I can't reproduce it on my 5.14 or get any more actual information out of Travis however.

The thought occurs, on a related not, do we actually need 5.12 or 5.10 testing? They're pretty old (i.e. debian oldstable and older)

[ghost]

The 5.10 and 5.12 errors are problems with wrong versions of some locale module. I wrote a shell script which checks the perl version and then pulls neccessary packages from backpan. I don't know if that is an acceptable fix though. I did that because apparently cpanm is not able to install specific module versions.

Nevertheless, then the Xslate problem appeared on 5.14 and 5.12 and I don't know what is causing it. Any ideas? Debugging Travis is like rolling a rock up a hill.

[mintsoft]

@bpaschen I'm hoping we can just remove 5.12 and 5.10 all together and sweep the problem away; but it's not my call.

I'm totally at a loss with regards to 5.12's Xslate issue. I just can't reproduce it at all. We really need the output of the /home/travis/.cpanm/work/1387287344.4157/build.log to see wtf is going on.

[ghost]

@mintsoft As far as I remember the problem also popped up on 5.14.

[crazedpsyc]

@bpaschen cpanm can install specific versions with a direct link, or at least the author: cpanm ETHER/Moose-2.1005

Is Xslate still the issue? Can't see that one in recent build logs, all I see is Locale::SubCountry requiring a newer warnings than travis has.

[mintsoft]

@crazedpsyc I think that might be an old build with Locale::SubCountry

The latest seems to be Xslate: https://travis-ci.org/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/jobs/15664991

[crazedpsyc]

Weird. It was current yesterday. Anyway, feel free to add an extra cpanm -v Text::Xslate or so, to show the details. It should be automatically tested once you submit a pull request.

[moollaza]

Ping. What's the status of this? Are there still any errors?

[mintsoft]

@moollaza Sadly yes on 5.14, 5.12 and 5.10.

I managed to re-create the issue with perlbrew on a completely empty machine and fixed it by explicitly installing Xslate & ExtUtils::ParseXS.

Whilst I was testing that I've come to the conclusion that the regex on dzil is wrong, I think it should be as in: https://github.com/mintsoft/zeroclickinfo-goodies/commit/0ee1e6aa01cccfdddf21995902e96e6daa93d48f

This could be why the dependencies aren't installing properly? I think Travis is actually relying on cpanm --quiet --notest App::DuckPAN to install the dependencies.

[crazedpsyc]

This was because ExtUtils::ParseXS was too old on travis, but Xslate did not complain -- going to add a ticket over there. 5.10-12 are failing because Locale::SubCountry is nuts, so I also added a ticket over there.

5.14 is now failing because "iso639 eng" did not trigger anything. Closer!

[mintsoft]

Excellent, @crazedpsyc have you managed to get the 5.14 build to get through to actually running tests on travis?

[crazedpsyc]

@mintsoft yep, that's what my last sentence meant :) One of the goodies tests fails, but at least it gets there.

[mintsoft]

@crazedpsyc I notice that Travis now passes and 5.14/5.12 have been removed; is that permanent or just until the modules get fixed up?

[yegg]

@mintsoft we run 5.16 in production and the other ones were always failing, so the thought was to make this useful we'd stick to what we support (and know works).

[jagtalon]

This looks like it's fixed. :)