Re: testing alpha toolchain modules

2008-09-09 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Golden # on Tuesday 09 September 2008 16:00: >This would be better if I finally updated CPAN::Reporter::Smoker to >take an arbitrary list of distributions instead of just working >backwards through CPAN and if you had a list of distributions with >Build.PL. Indeed I do have such a li

Re: testing alpha toolchain modules

2008-09-09 Thread Ron Savage
Hi Eric > Yes, Module::Build needs better tests. It also needs somebody with the > time to write them. (If Devel::Cover worked, I imagine it would tell > me that the coverage is rather low.) Is someone available for a (sort of) Perl micro-grant to write such tests? I could help fund it. --

Re: testing alpha toolchain modules

2008-09-09 Thread David Golden
On this thread, Eric asked how to run a "scientific" style test. Here's an idea based on CPAN Testers tools -- though not necessarily CPAN Testers output. a) Configure CPAN::Reporter to use the Test::Reporter::Transport::File transport -- this will save reports into a directory b) Run CPAN::Repo

Re: testing alpha toolchain modules

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 02:27:09 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I have said it, I have (well, CPAN::Testers::ParseReport has) >> downloaded 56000 reports from >> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/ > No, I meant what *testers*. I could tell you but you could

Re: testing alpha toolchain modules

2008-09-09 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andreas J. Koenig # on Tuesday 09 September 2008 00:09: >OK, I walk you through them. First off, there are ten cases in the >file I sent you. >... > So the above is a case where it's impossible to judge without > looking at the report but at the same time we cannot have any > expectation