Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:49:32 -0800, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We would seem to be agreeing. If the goal of the test suite is not to protect against spoofing, and if it doesn't accomplish that anyway, why put a signature check in there?

Re: Milton Keynes PM coding collaboration

2007-12-15 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Edwardson, Tony wrote: Anyone written any CPAN modules for which the testing coverage needs to be improved ? Oh, yes. Want someone else to sort this out for you ? Yes. Milton Keynes PM want to start working together to contribute to the Perl development effort and

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 15 December 2007 01:34:37 Michael G Schwern wrote: Bt skipped tests don't get run so it's effectively deleted, except a permanently skipped test sits around cluttering things up.  Smells like commenting out code that maybe someday you might want to use again in the future.  

[ANNOUNCE] TAP::Harness::Archive 0.03

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Peters
The uploaded file TAP-Harness-Archive-0.03.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/W/WO/WONKO/TAP-Harness-Archive-0.03.tar.gz size: 5995 bytes md5: 5a92a2ae5b43469229a68146703d The biggest change in this release is the removal of Archive::Builder and Archive::Extract

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:49:32 -0800, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Asking the wrong question. None of our testsuites is there to protect against spoof or attacks. That's simply not the goal. Same thing for 00-signature.t We would seem to be agreeing. If the goal of the

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 19:10]: thus every tarball of every distribution should contain everything necessary to take over maintainership of a module. It is a reasonable position, really, so long as you don’t stretch it to absurd lengths. If there is something *unusual*

Re: Milton Keynes PM coding collaboration

2007-12-15 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Dec 11, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Edwardson, Tony wrote: Anyone written any CPAN modules for which the testing coverage needs to be improved ? Sure - one that particularly bothers me is Apache2::AuthCookieDBI - back when I took over maintenance of that module I didn't know how to test it,