Re: New Kwalitee Metric?

2006-10-24 Thread James E Keenan
Ovid wrote: In short, these are the basic tests which module-starter creates Hey, let's remember that module-starter is not the only game in town when it comes to creating the structure for CPAN-ready distributions. See: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker/scripts/modulemaker

Re: Failing test on Windows

2006-10-24 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Jonathan Rockway wrote: >> True. On the flip side, there's nothing more irritating that flipping >> PerlTaintCheck On only to find out a crapload of modules don't run under >> taint. And that's assuming you have control over whether the flag is set >> of not. :-/ > > Maybe an example would help me

Re: Failing test on Windows

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Rockway
> True. On the flip side, there's nothing more irritating that flipping > PerlTaintCheck On only to find out a crapload of modules don't run under > taint. And that's assuming you have control over whether the flag is set > of not. :-/ Maybe an example would help me understand this, but doesn't t

Re: Test::Simple: 'make test' fail with 'lock can only be used on shared values'

2006-10-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ovid wrote: > From: Florian Scharinger > >> I have troubles building Test-Simple-0.64 on a standard SL3 machine: > >> several threading related tests fail, e.g.: > >> -bash-2.05b$ perl -V >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: > >>From the Test::Si

Re: prove vs. inc

2006-10-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
Christopher H. Laco wrote: > While trying to install the latest PPI from svn, I noticed that running > 'dmake test' passed, and 'prove -b t/' failed. > > As more and more people use Module::Install, it seems more and more > transient build/test related modules are being stuffed in the inc/ > direc

Re: TAP 2.0

2006-10-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jonathan Rockway wrote: > I like the "YAML" syntax, but can we live with: > > got: | > this is line 1 > this is line 2 > expected: | > this is line 1 > this is line 2 > > Instead? That way a real YAML parser can parse the output of TAP, which > could be important for adoption by other langua

Re: Sparse Test Output

2006-10-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
Adrian Howard wrote: > > On 5 Oct 2006, at 15:11, Paul Beckingham wrote: > >> Recently I was required to create another flavor of test harness that >> runs tests, then captures and stores output. >> >> The nature of my testing means that I am running millions of tests, >> and the resultant captur

Re: Failing test on Windows

2006-10-24 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Michael G Schwern wrote: > Christopher H. Laco wrote: >> Shouldn't all tests be set to use tainting? >> And by extension, shouldn't all modules run under -T? >> >> (Just curious) > > That would be nice, but tainting is a pain in the ass and not something I'd > be willing to universally inflict on

Re: Failing test on Windows

2006-10-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
Christopher H. Laco wrote: > Shouldn't all tests be set to use tainting? > And by extension, shouldn't all modules run under -T? > > (Just curious) That would be nice, but tainting is a pain in the ass and not something I'd be willing to universally inflict on all module authors.

Re: New Kwalitee Metric?

2006-10-24 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 24, 2006, at 9:32 AM, David Golden wrote: I think characterizing "the basics" as being based on Module::Starter is a little too module-specific for starters. Do you want to also make sure that there are files other than the boilerplate created by all the other module skeleton modules? W

Re: Bioperl

2006-10-24 Thread David Landgren
Nathan Haigh wrote: I have just discovered the cpants and was wondering why only version 1.2.3 of bioperl has made it in and not the latest version 1.4? Does anyone have any ideas about this? I noticed the same thing. A module I released over a week ago is still stuck at version n-1. I think

Re: Bioperl

2006-10-24 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:13:08PM +0100, Nathan Haigh wrote: > I have just discovered the cpants and was wondering why only version > 1.2.3 of bioperl has made it in and not the latest version 1.4? > > Does anyone have any ideas about this? CPANTS currently seems to have some problems with

Re: New Kwalitee Metric?

2006-10-24 Thread David Golden
On 10/24/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: now it adds boilerplate.t). I forgot to add to the MANIFEST any of the tests for the actual functionality :( I it would be valuable to have a metric which checks to see if any tests beyond the basics are included. Of course, this could well be impos

Bioperl

2006-10-24 Thread Nathan Haigh
I have just discovered the cpants and was wondering why only version 1.2.3 of bioperl has made it in and not the latest version 1.4? Does anyone have any ideas about this? Cheers Nathan

New Kwalitee Metric?

2006-10-24 Thread Ovid
So I'm sitting at work and I take a look at my Class::BuildMethods (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-BuildMethods/) tests and I see the following: t/00-load.t t/pod-coverage.t t/pod.t In short, these are the basic tests which module-starter creates (well, now it adds boilerplate.t). I forgot