Comments on: Downloading RT patches from the command line

By: Shuck & Awe #8: Hunting for Perl | The Pythian Blog

Shuck & Awe #8: Hunting for Perl | The Pythian Blog — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:22:55 +0000

[...] A useful tip for module maintainers from David Golden: how to download RT patches from the command line. [...]

By: Dolmen

Dolmen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:37:23 +0000

The next step would be to create have a tool that can generate a distropref from an RT ticket. Distroprefs are metadata that can be used by CPAN.pm to apply a patch to a distribution before building it.

By: dagolden

dagolden — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:28:44 +0000

That would be great. I did see that there are "attachments" without names, which looked like it might have been an email, but I didn't really investigate.

By: xenoterracide

xenoterracide — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:29:55 +0000

why on earth does this... 'name' field ( for posting comments ) either not allow spaces, or perhaps parenthesis.... and while denying it it gives no error...

By: xenoterracide

xenoterracide — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:28:09 +0000

hmm.... it downloads attachments... I'll have to see if I can modify it to download the email with full headers for git am patches. http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2010/06/rt-git-workflow.html which are great if you use git ;)

By: dagolden

dagolden — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:44:16 +0000

Of course! I forget that not everyone automates CPAN uploads with cpan_upload. (And actually, I now let Dist::Zilla do it for me.)

By: dagolden

dagolden — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:39:34 +0000

Good catch. That was left over from my copy/paste of the example code. Fixed above and in the code I actually use.

By: mjevans

mjevans — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:24:01 +0000

Nice one, I'll definitely find this useful and it worked like a treat when I worked out what your .pause file looked like.

By: Shawn M Moore

Shawn M Moore — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:42:20 +0000

Cool! Haven't used it yet, but you hardcode ticket #10 in one of your error messages.