Re: Plugging CPANTS

2005-09-20 Thread Smylers
Thomas Klausner writes: > CPANTS is an acronym for CPAN Testing Service. That would be better simplified to: CPANTS is the CPAN Testing Service. -- cos it's pretty obvious where the name comes from, and its being an acronym is hardly the most important thing about it. But if you really want

Re: Plugging CPANTS

2005-09-20 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:18:17PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > Can someone please write up a paragraph and a link that I can put up > on qa.perl.org's front page? Took me a bit longer than planned, but renovating our new appartment sucks up a lot of time... Anyway, I rewrote some of the p

Re: ENV problems with testing

2005-09-20 Thread Ovid
--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5.005 introduced qr// > > > > $ ~/Reference/5.005_04/bin/perl5.00504-32 -le '$r = qr/(p...)/; $^X > =~ $r; print $1' > > perl > > If you're using it for any serious amount of nesting (ie. building up > a regex > with a bunch of qr's) it didn't

Re: ENV problems with testing

2005-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:50:03AM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > >I think you misunderstand. The problem is not using relative paths in > >chdir. > >The problem is that @INC contains a relative path. So if you change > >directories, the ./blib/lib entry in @INC is no longer valid. I forgot to

Re: ENV problems with testing

2005-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:52PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > > (Secondary reason for tests needing 5.6: as you, Schwern, pointed out > > several weeks back, doing without qr// is just too painful!) > > 5.005 introduced qr// >

Re: ENV problems with testing

2005-09-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:52PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > (Secondary reason for tests needing 5.6: as you, Schwern, pointed out > several weeks back, doing without qr// is just too painful!) 5.005 introduced qr// $ ~/Reference/5.005_04/bin/perl5.00504-32 -le '$r = qr/(p...)/; $^X =~ $r;

Re: ENV problems with testing

2005-09-20 Thread James E Keenan
Michael G Schwern wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:52PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: Schwern: Do you think it's worthwhile accounting for this MakeMaker anachronism in writing test files, i.e., providing an absolute path to every chdir call? I think you misunderstand. The problem is

Re: CPANTS: has_license ?

2005-09-20 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:33:07 +0200, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gábor Szabó wrote: > > What do you think about adding a has_license kwalitee to CPANTS ? > > Checking if the META.yml has that entry ? > > This will penalise all the modules that use ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which, > las