Re: CPANTS and CPAN Testers (Was: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL)

2014-08-11 Thread Smylers
Tom Hukins writes: > CPAN Testers ... the database also benefits from lots of people > running tests on lots of different systems. It's worth considering > whether you want to run it on your development system or a build > machine: it's not just for high volume automated smokers. Or, if you're a

CPANTS and CPAN Testers (Was: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL)

2014-08-11 Thread Tom Hukins
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:08:40PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > Because people will insist on using these OSes, and it's worth at least > trying to make sure your code works in as many environments as practical. > Which is why CPANTS exists I hope this comes across as informative rather tha

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 11 August 2014 07:37, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: > > Toby> *throws hands in air* I'm not trying to defend the concept! you'd > have > Toby> to ask the Debian developers what they were thinking. > > Part of why I steer far clear from Linux. Why use a "

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:37:35PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Why use a "pretend" Unix when > you can use a real one? Because more stuff Just Works. HTH. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread Sue Spence
On 11 August 2014 03:56, Toby Wintermute wrote: > Hi, > I took over Test::PostgreSQL a while back. > I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on > CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being > installed in different locations. > > If you run either

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread Steve Mynott
On 11 August 2014 07:37, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: > > Toby> *throws hands in air* I'm not trying to defend the concept! you'd have > Toby> to ask the Debian developers what they were thinking. > > Part of why I steer far clear from Linux. Why use a "pret

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: Toby> *throws hands in air* I'm not trying to defend the concept! you'd have Toby> to ask the Debian developers what they were thinking. Part of why I steer far clear from Linux. Why use a "pretend" Unix when you can use a real one? -- Randal L. Schwart

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 11 August 2014 16:21, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: > >>> Why the heck would people put "bin" stuff under a *lib* directory? >>> That's just... insane. > > Toby> Well, you can have multiple versions installed at once that way. Then > Toby> /usr/bin/ contain

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 11 August 2014 15:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: > > Toby> I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on > Toby> CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being > Toby> installed in different locations. > > Toby

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: >> Why the heck would people put "bin" stuff under a *lib* directory? >> That's just... insane. Toby> Well, you can have multiple versions installed at once that way. Then Toby> /usr/bin/ contains scripts that pass control to the appropriate Toby> version

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Toby" == Toby Wintermute writes: Toby> I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on Toby> CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being Toby> installed in different locations. Toby> If you run either of those systems, would you be able to tell

Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hi, I took over Test::PostgreSQL a while back. I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being installed in different locations. If you run either of those systems, would you be able to tell me the path to the