Test::Simple/More/Builder 0.95_02 has just been released. I'm proud to say
that I had very little to do with it. All the commits are the work of Nick
Clayton and him not being afraid to flex his commit bit. :)
http://github.com/schwern/test-more/tree/v0.95_02
0.95_01 introduced fixage [1] (my fault, not Nick's) when testing overloaded
objects. is(), and probably other functions, no longer stringify their
arguments before comparing. It was a long standing bug that they did. This
means string overloaded objects will now use their eq method to compare rather
than "".
For a well written overloaded objects this should have no effect.
Unfortunately, its very easy to forget to implement a comparison function or
turn on fallback. DateTime objects prior to 0.54 did this.
use Test::More;
use DateTime;
my $date1 = DateTime->new( year => 2010 );
my $date2 = DateTime->new( year => 2010 );
is( $date1, $date2 );
done_testing();
The above code will fail with DateTime prior to 0.54 and Test::More after (but
not including) 0.94. Any code which uses DateTime objects should verify
against the Test::More alpha and upgrade DateTime as necessary. Authors of
string overloaded classes should also verify their implementations and unless
you have a good reason not to, turn on fallback.
For compatibility with older versions of DateTime and Test::More, you should
quote DateTime objects before comparing with is().
is( "$date1", "$date2" );
CPAN Testers, please load your smokers with Test::More 0.95_02, compare the
results with Test::More 0.94 and report any differences in test results to
their respective authors. I would like to see a summary of the differences as
well so I know the scope of the fixage.
Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.
[1] Bug fixes which will reveal failing tests that accidentally pass.
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