Looking into integrating Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix with prove

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
Thanks to help from a number of people here, I now have a better understanding of how Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix is used. I would like to see it integrated with 'prove', and have looked into what this would take. Here's what I think needs to happen: - Have Test::Harness::Straps be declared 'stable

Re: Looking into integrating Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix with prove

2005-07-08 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 15:15:55 +, Mark Stosberg wrote: Thanks to help from a number of people here, I now have a better understanding of how Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix is used. I would like to see it integrated with 'prove', and have looked into what this would take. Here's what I think

AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: Example: http://www.annocpan.org/dist/Net-ICal-0.15/lib/Net/ICal.pm I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN documentation could be

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 16:24:45 +, Mark Stosberg wrote: I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN documentation could be stuffed into a kwiki wiki using the POD format feature. It's been done =)

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread demerphq
Schwern wrote: The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an option to subscribe to the recent notes feed. A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and live in our MTAs not our web browsers. Did you see Tim O'Reilly's note:

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:17:22PM +0200, demerphq wrote: Schwern wrote: The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an option to subscribe to the recent notes feed. A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and live in our MTAs not our web browsers.

OT: integrating RSS with mail readers (was: Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea)

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-07-08, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. An AnnoCPAN tip: Notice that if you are an author, you can subscribe to all comments on your modules: http://www.annocpan.org/~MARKSTOS/recent.rss Not knowing anything about RSS I put the URL into Firefox and it asked me if I

Testing a Script Distributed with a Module

2005-07-08 Thread James E Keenan
I am having trouble figuring out how to test a Perl script which functions as a command-line utility and which is included with a CPAN-style distribution. For purpose of discussion, let's call the distribution XYZ and the script xyz.pl. My distribution has the following standard structure:

Re: Testing a Script Distributed with a Module

2005-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:47:42PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: scripts/ xyz.pl Make sure MakeMaker is told about that script via EXE_FILES or it won't know to do anything with it (like install it). I would like to be able to write tests which call xyz.pl with different

Re: Testing a Script Distributed with a Module

2005-07-08 Thread James E Keenan
Michael G Schwern wrote: Make sure MakeMaker is told about that script via EXE_FILES or it won't know to do anything with it (like install it). Check. In Makefile.PL, I already had: EXE_FILES= [ 'scripts/modulemaker', ], [snip]

Re: Testing a Script Distributed with a Module

2005-07-08 Thread James E Keenan
Michael G Schwern wrote: Oh yeah, forgot about that. Its not in your path so you have to give it the full path to the program. The directories in blib have no relation to where the file came from. Non-binary executables always go into blib/script. Binary executables go into blib/bin.