On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:26:26 +0000, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:21:02PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > DBI-Test-git/sandbox/tim 517 > perl tumbler.pl > > String found where operator expected at tumbler.pl line 269, near "croak > > "Test variant setting key '$dst_key' already exists"" > > Fixed. (I was using an older perl that didn't trip up on that.) 5.18.2 is now my "working perl" on my laptop. Once I do not encounter new(ish) problems, I'll also install it on my $work-PC > > > What's are the priorities now? > > > > I think riba and I would agree that there should be a template to copy > > for *any* DBD as a strating-kit > > > > USAGE: > > $ cd /your/DBD-xxx > > $ perl -MDBI-Test -we'install_templates()' > > $ perl dbi-test-tumbler.pl > > $ prove -j4 -sr out > > I think we're not ready for that yet. There are many issues (as noted in > the README) that we should work on to flesh out the prototype first. > > Also it looks like you're proposing that DBI-Test 'installs templates' > into a DBD source tree. That doesn't seem like important functionality > to work on just yet. The primary goal of DBIT is to run a set of common > tests against many drivers. That is what my goal is too. But once that works, I can start writing new tests. That is exactly what I did with the previous state. > Extra driver-specific tests will be a nice feature but it seems > conterproductive to add that till we're more sure about the various > interfaces those external tests will rely on. IMHO that is up to the driver authors. Shit, I'm one of them :/ > > Maybe I am too narrow-minded, but I like to work from the results > > backward. I find it hard to comment on anything that I do not know > > how to use. > > Please try running "perl tumbler.pl && prove -r out" with the latest > version, then work from the results (the out/ dir) backwards. When time permits, will do. Where do I run tumbler? in the DBD ? > I hope how to use it is reasonably clear from the README but please ping > me on irc if you hit any problems. I'll start with the README > Tim. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
