Bug #39485 for CPAN-Testers-ParseReport: Ship style.css and/or allow specification of an alternate stylesheet in HTML output

Sun Sep 21 07:28:14 2008 rjray [...] blackperl.com - Ticket created

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Ship style.css and/or allow specification of an alternate stylesheet in HTML output

If you use the tool to download/create local mirroring of select results, the resulting HTML is somewhat sparse in appearance. The stylesheet used by cpantesters.org is not included in the package (and thus not installed anywhere under $HOME/var), and there is no option to specify an alternate stylesheet. It only defaults to "/style.css". Preferable would be that some sort of stylesheet is delivered with the package and (at least when creating reports on a local instance) installed alongside the HTML. Alternately (or even also), offer an option that allows the user to provide an alternate stylesheet URI.

Mon Sep 22 02:34:11 2008 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks for the feedback! Well, let's hear what upstream thinks about it. I'll put this ticket in the CPAN-WWW-Testers queue. Barbie, please give it back to me if you do not see an easy solution on your end. So my suggestion would be that cpantesters site sets the site up such that it can reference a ./style.css instead of a /style.css. This would not only help my module but all other people who try to mirror parts of cpantesters. Thanks,

Mon Sep 22 02:34:13 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Sep 22 02:35:00 2008 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Queue changed from CPAN-Testers-ParseReport to CPAN-WWW-Testers

Mon Sep 22 03:06:52 2008 rjray [...] blackperl.com - Correspondence added

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> So my suggestion would be that cpantesters site sets the site up such > that it can reference a ./style.css instead of a /style.css. > > This would not only help my module but all other people who try to > mirror parts of cpantesters.

I think it's reasonable to expect that users (like me) who are creating local mirrors use a command-line option to ctgetreports, to specify an alternate stylesheet URL. Assuming they want to, of course... they might just direct the output to an existing webserver area and put a style.css at the root. In other words, I don't think it should be necessary to change the default behavior, such that the cpantesters site code has to change, as well. If I'm using these tools locally, I'm already juggling command-line options-- one more option isn't going to be a problem.

Mon Sep 22 05:03:09 2008 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Can you explain more clearly what you're asking me to do? style.css *IS* shipped with CPAN-WWW-Testers, it's under the ./src directory. If you're asking me to ship further random CSS files, then that is unlikely to happen. If you want to create your own mirror of the site, feel free to create a style.css that suits you, it doesn't need to be backported into CPAN-WWW-Testers.

Mon Sep 22 06:03:26 2008 rjray [...] blackperl.com - Correspondence added

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> style.css *IS* shipped with CPAN-WWW-Testers, it's under the ./src > directory. If you're asking me to ship further random CSS files, then > that is unlikely to happen. If you want to create your own mirror of the > site, feel free to create a style.css that suits you, it doesn't need to > be backported into CPAN-WWW-Testers.

I didn't know it came with the other package... please note that I opened this ticket against CPAN-Testers-ParseReport, which works on its own without having CPAN-WWW-Testers installed. I followed-up to Andreas' reply saying that I think it would be enough if the ctgetreports script would take a command-line option to specify and alternate URI for the stylesheet. That way, for the cpantesters.org site there are no changes needed, but those using the script to pull down reports on our modules (we who are already juggling command-line options anyway) can add an extra option to set the stylesheet location. Randy

Mon Sep 22 06:33:30 2008 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Queue changed from CPAN-WWW-Testers to CPAN-Testers-ParseReport

Sat Dec 29 12:15:44 2018 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Maybe there is a chance to resolve this ticket with "patch welcome"? I'm willing to help, but I have no idea for scope and mechanism of the commandline option.

Sat Dec 29 12:15:45 2018 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'