Re: Discuss change of namespace Test::Builder2 -> TB2?

2011-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:11:28PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > In the interest of saving my hands, and the hands of test module authors, I'm > considering changing the namespace from Test::Builder2 to just TB2. Like LWP > and DBI. > Test::Builder, Test::More and Test::Simple remain unchang

Discuss change of namespace Test::Builder2 -> TB2?

2011-11-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
I have written "Test::Builder2" more times than I can count. Wait, I can count them. It occurs at least 1280 times in the distribution. That's 18,000 keystrokes. 19,000 if you count shift. It gets a little tiresome. That's just the current count, who knows how many times I've retyped it. In t

Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!

2011-11-13 Thread Zefram
Reini Urban wrote: >5.6.2 still is the fastest perl around. Evidently it's important to you to get the wrong answer as quickly as possible. (Advice from Klortho #11912.) -zefram

Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!

2011-11-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2011.11.13 8:39 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > I've come around your hammering lately and had this idea: > > Cannot CPAN add logic to avoid downloading your new versions on older > releases? Yes, but it is non-trivial. It would requiring creating a new index which supplies modules and versions for

Re: The end of 5.6 is nigh!

2011-11-13 Thread Reini Urban
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > It's that time again!  Time when I hammer the last few nails in the coffin of > a version of Perl. > > By which I mean, the next major release of Test::More (aka Test::Builder1.5) > will support 5.8.1 and up.  ExtUtils::MakeMaker will pro