In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/dfb56e283d62a918640c0f415e80860db5d65309?hp=a96d018829db6d60ab7d14d2ba51db878e944ddd>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit dfb56e283d62a918640c0f415e80860db5d65309 Author: Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 14 14:34:43 2009 +0100 Moving pod/*.PL to ext is the last major part remaining for the dual-life move. M pod/perltodo.pod commit 5e88c5dd417b17e710ab407c5f40afe3f9de11c8 Author: Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 14 14:33:06 2009 +0100 Parallel testing is pretty much done. M pod/perltodo.pod ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perltodo.pod | 21 +++------------------ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 0686853..6fe31fa 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -61,18 +61,6 @@ The more practical approach, to break the task down into manageable chunks, is to work your way though the code from bottom to top, or if necessary adding extra C<{ ... }> blocks, and turning on strict within them. -=head2 Parallel testing - -(This probably impacts much more than the core: also the Test::Harness -and TAP::* modules on CPAN.) - -All of the tests in F<t/> can now be run in parallel, if C<$ENV{TEST_JOBS}> -is set. However, tests within each directory in F<ext> and F<lib> are still -run in series, with directories run in parallel. This is an adequate -heuristic, but it might be possible to relax it further, and get more -throughput. Specifically, it would be good to audit all of F<lib/*.t>, and -make them use C<File::Temp>. - =head2 Make Schwern poorer We should have tests for everything. When all the core's modules are tested, @@ -113,13 +101,10 @@ do so. Test it with older perl releases, and fix the problems you find. To make a minimal perl distribution, it's useful to look at F<t/lib/commonsense.t>. -=head2 Bundle dual life modules in ext/ - -For maintenance (and branch merging) reasons, it would be useful to move -some architecture-independent dual-life modules from lib/ to ext/, if this -has no negative impact on the build of perl itself. +=head2 Move dual-life pod/*.PL into ext -As part of this, we need to move F<pod/*.PL> into their respective directories +Nearly all the dual-life modules have been moved to F<ext>. However, we +still need to move F<pod/*.PL> into their respective directories in F<ext/>. They're referenced by (at least) C<plextract> in F<Makefile.SH> and C<utils> in F<win32/Makefile> and F<win32/makefile.ml>, and listed explicitly in F<win32/pod.mak>, F<vms/descrip_mms.template> and F<utils.lst> -- Perl5 Master Repository
