Re: testing for warnings during tests

2008-08-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:11 PM, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sure. IMHO that is what *diag* is for. >> To print all kinds of messages to the screen in a TAP. > > Going up the thread, I think you had asked about

Re: JSON TAP Diagnostics?

2008-08-19 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-18T12:26:54] > YAML types can be little more than local tags which only have meaning to that > particular document. > > name: !customer Evil Business Guy Made Of Butter Yeah, that's neat and everything, but there aren't any Perl implementations

Re: testing for warnings during tests

2008-08-19 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. IMHO that is what *diag* is for. > To print all kinds of messages to the screen in a TAP. Going up the thread, I think you had asked about whether the harness could catch warnings to find things that T::NW can't. I th

Re: testing for warnings during tests

2008-08-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
I was just cleaning up old mails when I found this thread On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:49 PM, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The issue I am trying to solve is how to catch and report >> when a test suit gives a

Re: JSON TAP Diagnostics?

2008-08-19 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-18T11:17:25] > Oh, definitely agreed. I cannot assert that non-Perl implementations of JSON > are any better, but JSON is simple enough that I'm pretty damned sure they > are. However, YAML is so problematic that I *CAN* state that non-Perl > versions are often

Re: JSON TAP Diagnostics?

2008-08-19 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-18T09:27:57] > What's the latest consensus on the "best" pure-perl JSON module? And > ditto for JSON via XS? JSON and JSON::XS, most likely. Certainly JSON::XS. -- rjbs

Re: JSON TAP Diagnostics?

2008-08-19 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-18T06:50:00] > JSON is fairly well implemented and new implementations are trivial. This is > not true for YAML. Trying to define a minimum standard of YAML for extended > TAP is a quagmire. With JSON, we can punt and just point to a fairly > well-established

Fwd: [TIP] Pythoscope proposal

2008-08-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, the following message is cross posted from TIP - the Python testing mailing list. http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python Archive of this thread starts here: http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2008-August/000921.html Where does Perl stand in regards of such tool? As