Re: Updated CPAN River available

2017-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 April 2017 at 12:54, James E Keenan wrote: > 7. Used a revised version of 'order-battle.pl' to record the order in > which various modules *first* appeared in the 'fails' file and the > total number of times each module was cited. Results are attached as >

Re: BBC testing from upriver downwards

2017-04-05 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6 April 2017 at 06:10, James E Keenan wrote: > "[T]esting for what end users using the cpan toolchains will see" was > precisely what I was focusing on in this exercise Right. That's useful to /an/ audience. Its just not inherently useful information for me. Because this

Re: BBC testing from upriver downwards

2017-04-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On 5 April 2017 at 08:28, James E Keenan wrote: > the tip of the order of battle looks substantially different I must say though, your results confuse me. In my testing, the things that are holding back the most are ... Module::Runtime , and Task::Weaken. But neither of

Re: BBC testing from upriver downwards

2017-03-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 31 March 2017 at 09:36, James E Keenan wrote: > For example, today David Golden prepared a new version of Sub::Uplevel -- > the #1 distro in the order of battle. Once he releases that to CPAN, a > tremendous number of downstream distros will have their prerequisites >

Re: Last call for review of Test-Builder using Test2 (Formerly Test-Stream)

2016-02-06 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6 February 2016 at 08:14, Chad Granum wrote: > If there is anything in these > distributions (Test2 in particular) that makes you uncomfortable, you > need to speak now. Mentioning here for visibility: As with Test-Stream where the apparent silence lead to a premature

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-06 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7 May 2015 at 02:46, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: How much I admire this effort (+1000 as you say from me as well), I think a structured HTML doc that people can download and read or PDF with index will reach a wider audience. Generally, with HTML, if I want to read HTML, I

Re: Test::More, what we hope to achieve doc.

2015-04-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 13 April 2015 at 20:21, Martin J. Evans martin.ev...@easysoft.com wrote: release I got: t/xxx-changes_updated.t skipped: Only tested when releasing t/zzz-check-breaks.t ... Can't locate object method requirements_for_module via package CPAN::Meta::Requirements at

Re: Test::More, what we hope to achieve doc.

2015-04-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 13 April 2015 at 20:21, Martin J. Evans martin.ev...@easysoft.com wrote: I'll post this on github if you prefer. Martin And done on your behalf: https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/issues/563 -- Kent *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL