Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 10/31/06, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:51:42 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What about adding a mechanism to PAUSE to map module/version pairs > to the bundles they are mentioned in? One could parse the most recent > bundle

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:51:42 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > What about adding a mechanism to PAUSE to map module/version pairs > to the bundles they are mentioned in? One could parse the most recent > bundles, extract the list of modules and the frozen version

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 10/31/06, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 18:16, David Golden wrote: > Bundle gives the option of either freezing a particular version (by > specifying a distribution file) or else fully upgrading to the > absolute latest version (by specifying a module).

Re: Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Jos Boumans wrote: You're right, Test.pm does not, never has and does not have to. Exiting non-zero on failure is a little "feature" I put in to make using Test::More without Test::Harness a little easier but I plan on removing it. Hmm, I hope this doesn't m

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Jonathan Rockway
On Monday 30 October 2006 18:16, David Golden wrote: > Bundle gives the option of either freezing a particular version (by > specifying a distribution file) or else fully upgrading to the > absolute latest version (by specifying a module). The problem I've experienced with this method is that auth

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread David Golden
On 10/30/06, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:23:09 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The mapping of flag to Module-Version pairs could actually reside on any > server with ftp or http access. CPAN.pm would be configured to use such

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:23:09 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The mapping of flag to Module-Version pairs could actually reside on any > server with ftp or http access. CPAN.pm would be configured to use such > a URL. > What do you think? What you describe ca

Re: Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread Jos Boumans
> Jos Boumans wrote: >> I got this bug report for CPANPLUS the other day, which turns out that >> Test.pm >> does not actually exit with a non-zero exitcode like Test::More does on >> failed tests: >> >> http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22685 > > You're right, Test.pm does not, never has

CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
I am not exactly sure this is the appropriate place to raise this idea but it relates very strongly to quality of CPAN modules. Occasionally new version of CPAN modules break code in applications. We cannot catch that, but we can at least catch cases when it breaks other CPAN modules. There are

Re: Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: The solution is to get authors to stop using test.pl. That sounds like an important Kwalitee test to me! Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703

Re: Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread David Golden
On 10/30/06, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is not Test.pm's fault but the fact that test.pl is not run through Test::Harness by MakeMaker.This is a historical accident. No, I won't change it. Many test.pl's do not output TAP. For example, DBI's test.pl contains bench

Re: Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jos Boumans wrote: > I got this bug report for CPANPLUS the other day, which turns out that > Test.pm > does not actually exit with a non-zero exitcode like Test::More does on > failed tests: > > http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22685 You're right, Test.pm does not, never has and does

Re: Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread Adrian Howard
On 30 Oct 2006, at 08:48, Jos Boumans wrote: Greetings, I got this bug report for CPANPLUS the other day, which turns out that Test.pm does not actually exit with a non-zero exitcode like Test::More does on failed tests: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22685 This means neither

Test.pm does not return false on failed tests.

2006-10-30 Thread Jos Boumans
Greetings, I got this bug report for CPANPLUS the other day, which turns out that Test.pm does not actually exit with a non-zero exitcode like Test::More does on failed tests: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22685 This means neither CPAN.pm nor CPANPLUS actually detect the fact that