A Modest Request

2007-01-23 Thread James E Keenan
What with all the activity on this list in the last week (TAPx::Parser about to morph into Test::Harness), it's all been more than I can keep up with. I would like to suggest that one or more or the hackerati who are working on all these revisions to our core testing functionality write an ar

Re: TAPx::Parser 0.50_06 -- Now on Windows!

2007-01-23 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 19 Jan 2007, at 19:09, Abe Timmerman wrote: Get it at: http://www.testdrive.hp.com I have a testdrive account but not a clue how to do *anything* with VMS. Is there a simple spell you could share for running the tests? I juist build and installed perl-5.8.8 on TD183. This is what it

Re: TAPx::Parser 0.50_06 -- Now on Windows!

2007-01-23 Thread Abe Timmerman
Op een mooie winterdag (Friday 19 January 2007 16:47),schreef Ovid: > --- demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Likewise you should review the work of the smoke suite for handling > > oddball cases like VMS, you certainly shouldnt think that windows > > will > > be the oddest platform y

Re: Updated TAP Grammar

2007-01-23 Thread Ovid
Yup. Knew I shouldn't have done this now. --- Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tests ::= test {test} That's unused. > todo_directive ::= '#' 'TODO' ' ' {character} > > skip_directive ::= '#' 'SKIP' ' ' {character} Those '#' signs should have a {' '} after them (zero or more sp

Updated TAP Grammar

2007-01-23 Thread Ovid
It's been a while since I've updated the TAP grammar and the old one has some weaknesses. Here's the corrected one. Feedback welcome. I'm feeling under the weather, so this was probably a bad thing for me to tackle right now. Also, I can't find the email, but someone once rewrote part of this t

Re: Using pip to get testing done better and faster...

2007-01-23 Thread Adam Kennedy
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Adam Kennedy # on Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:05 am: Since I moved to SVN, one of the things I've been doing is commiting my release tarballs into a /releases/ directory. One side-effect of this is that even before I've uploaded it to CPAN, ever release already has a

Re: Test::Harness 3.0

2007-01-23 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 23 Jan 2007, at 12:32, Smylers wrote: Agreed, it isn't huge. But it'd be better not to introduce even a small risk if we don't have to. And Adam now says we don't need this for his desired features. I'd certainly rather leave it out if it's not necessary. Apart from anything else it'

Re: Test::Harness 3.0

2007-01-23 Thread Smylers
Eric Wilhelm writes: > # from Smylers > # on Sunday 21 January 2007 11:50 pm: > > > Eric Wilhelm writes: > > > > > If that isn't enough, I suppose you could do "if the env var is an > > > executable, run it and capture the output"? > > > > Nice -- so that if you manage to trick somebody into set

Re: Using pip to get testing done better and faster...

2007-01-23 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Adam Kennedy # on Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:05 am: >Since I moved to SVN, one of the things I've been doing is commiting > my release tarballs into a /releases/ directory. > >One side-effect of this is that even before I've uploaded it to CPAN, >ever release already has a URI. I was doing

Re: Test::Harness 3.0

2007-01-23 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Smylers # on Sunday 21 January 2007 11:50 pm: >Eric Wilhelm writes: >> If that isn't enough, I suppose you could do "if the env var is an >> executable, run it and capture the output"? > >Nice -- so that if you manage to trick somebody into setting that >environment variable you can get the