Keeping tests for execution at a later point in time

2008-04-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
The issue was raised on the Oslo Hackathon that it would be cool if we could keep the tests around so that they can be executed later again making sure that even after one has upgraded other parts of his system the previously installed modules still work as expected. AFAIK the issue did not get

Re: Keeping tests for execution at a later point in time

2008-04-10 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So let's see what needs to be done in order to be able to keep the test files and run them later. There are two concerns I could immediately see. 1) Tests might assume a certain directory structure, they might say

Re: Keeping tests for execution at a later point in time

2008-04-10 Thread Ovid
--- Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue was raised on the Oslo Hackathon that it would be cool if we could keep the tests around so that they can be executed later again making sure that even after one has upgraded other parts of his system the previously installed modules still

Re: Keeping tests for execution at a later point in time

2008-04-10 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 10 April 2008 04:14:15 Gabor Szabo wrote: The issue was raised on the Oslo Hackathon that it would be cool if we could keep the tests around so that they can be executed later again making sure that even after one has upgraded other parts of his system the previously installed

Re: Keeping tests for execution at a later point in time

2008-04-10 Thread Smylers
David Golden writes: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So let's see what needs to be done in order to be able to keep the test files and run them later. There are two concerns I could immediately see. 1) Tests might assume a certain directory

Re: Keeping tests for execution at a later point in time

2008-04-10 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Golden writes: Seems like a lot of headache. Why not just save the tarballs somewhere? Were there tarballs in the first place? Presumably at some point, for modules that live on CPAN. Suppose a Fedora or Ubuntu