NAME

parrotbug - Parrot Bug Reporter

SYNOPSIS

    % ./parrotbug [options] [actions]

DESCRIPTION

A program to help generate bug reports about parrot, and mail them. It is designed to be used interactively. Normally no arguments will be needed.

COMMAND-LINE SWITCHES

Options

Note: you will be prompted if the program miss some information.

--nok
Report unsuccessful build on this system to parrot developers.
--ok
Report successful build on this system to parrot developers Only use --ok if everything was ok; if there were any problems at all, use --nok.
--summary
Summary of the report. You will be prompted if you don't supply one on the command-line.
--category
Category of the bug report. You will be prompted if you don't supply one on the command-line.
--severity
Severity of the bug report. You will be prompted if you don't supply one on the command-line.
--address
Your email address. The program will try to guess one if you don't provide one, but you'll still need to validate it.
--editor
Editor to use for editing the bug report.
--output-file
File where parrotbug will save its bug report, if you ask it to do so.

Actions

You can provide more than one action on the command-line. If none is supplied, then you will be prompted for what to do.

--dump
Dump formatted report on standard output.
--save
Save message to a file, in order for you to send it later from your own. See --output flag.
--help
Print a short synopsis and exit.
--version
Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

perlbug(1), parrot(1), diff(1), patch(1)