Re: Planning talk on Devel::Cover

2007-09-13 Thread Joshua ben Jore
On 9/12/07, James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a proposal accepted to do a presentation at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (Oct 13-14) on Better Code via Coverage Analysis during Testing (http://pghpw.org/ppw2007/talk/725). During this presentation I hope to: 1. Channel pjcj

Re: Planning talk on Devel::Cover

2007-09-13 Thread James E Keenan
On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:14 AM, Joshua ben Jore wrote: Do you know of any addons to the cover program to use information like this method call site always resolves to the following destinations or if execution went through this part, what else probably happened? Sorry, I don't know of any

Test::Pod / YAML explodes (and taking cpants with it...)

2007-09-13 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! You might wonder why cpants.perl.org is still down, even though I found some time to work on it. Here's why: Some dists (eg Number::Phone) currently cause segfaults in cpants [Meta: I changed a few things in how cpants processes CPAN. In a first pass, cpants writes a YAML file for each

Prior art for testing against many local perls?

2007-09-13 Thread brian d foy
Without getting into a bikeshed discussion, I'm looking for prior art to test a tarball against a list of local perls before I write my own thing. This sounds like a fun and mostly easy project, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I want to take a distro tarball and test it against every perl

Re: Prior art for testing against many local perls?

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Peters
brian d foy wrote: Without getting into a bikeshed discussion, I'm looking for prior art to test a tarball against a list of local perls before I write my own thing. This sounds like a fun and mostly easy project, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Sounds like Andy Armstrong's upcoming

Re: Test::Pod / YAML explodes (and taking cpants with it...)

2007-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Thomas Klausner wrote: I'm not sure if the problem is caused by some dists liek Number::Phone, or by Pod::Simple::Checker (YAML for sure is causing the segfaults, but I'd definitly want to correct the data, too) I've put one of the problematic files up here:

Re: Prior art for testing against many local perls?

2007-09-13 Thread Andy Lester
http://svn.perl.org/modules/Test-Harness/trunk/bin/testall #!/usr/bin/perl -w use warnings; use strict; # This isn't meant to be installed, just used by the maintainer. my @vers = qw( 5.004_05 5.005_03 5.6.0 5.6.1 5.6.2 5.8.0 5.8.1 5.8.2 5.8.3 5.8.4 5.8.5 5.8.6 5.8.7 5.8.8

Re: Test::Pod / YAML explodes (and taking cpants with it...)

2007-09-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:45:38 +0200, Thomas Klausner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: perl -MYAML=LoadFile -le 'LoadFile(Number-Phone-1.58.yml)' Use YAML::Syck! It will cut your execution time too. Significantly! % time perl -MYAML::Syck=LoadFile -le 'LoadFile(Number-Phone-1.58.yml)' perl

Re: Prior art for testing against many local perls?

2007-09-13 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 13 Sep 2007, at 23:10, brian d foy wrote: Without getting into a bikeshed discussion, I'm looking for prior art to test a tarball against a list of local perls before I write my own thing. This sounds like a fun and mostly easy project, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I want to

[ANNOUNCE] Test::Builder/More/Simple 0.71

2007-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.71.tar.gz The big change here? No more sort_bug.t. Bye bye 90% of my spurious bug reports. It was testing two deprecated functions and tended to hit bugs in threaded perls that I can't fix and the user doesn't care about. I replaced with with a