Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-18 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Sep 17, 2008, at 17:51, Michael G Schwern wrote: I think that you can add TAP columns for JavaScript and PHP, too, no? Yeah, and so can you. :P Someone beat me to it for PHP, but I added a TAP column for JavaScript, along with a link to Test.Simple. Now if only we could get OpenJSAN a

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-17 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Wednesday 17 September 2008 17:51: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#Perl >> >> I think that you can add TAP columns for JavaScript and PHP, too, >> no? > >Yeah, and so can you. :P This mail contains unsubstantiated or potentially subje

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Sep 17, 2008, at 13:24, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> FWIW I added a TAP column to the Perl section on Wikipedia's list of unit >> testing frameworks. If every testing framework has to sound off on >> xUnit, why >> not TAP? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-17 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Sep 17, 2008, at 13:24, Michael G Schwern wrote: FWIW I added a TAP column to the Perl section on Wikipedia's list of unit testing frameworks. If every testing framework has to sound off on xUnit, why not TAP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#Perl I think th

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Eric Wilhelm wrote: >> My stock thinking is that because it follows the xUnit pattern that's >> most familiar to most non-Perl programmers. It's the first thing >> they stumble on that looks like what they're used to. So that's what >> they go with. > > Even if they had no prior language experie

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 18:57: >Ovid wrote: >> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What >> have I missed? >> >> http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37463 > >My stock thinking is that because it follows the xUnit pattern that's > most famili

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ovid wrote: > PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I > missed? > > http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37463 My stock thinking is that because it follows the xUnit pattern that's most familiar to most non-Perl programmers. It's the first thing they stumble on

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:13:38 Nicholas Clark wrote: > So everyone gainfully employed because they know what they are doing is > automatically disqualified? Ah yes, the Wikipedia Fallacy of Collective Alethiology. -- c

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Shawn Boyette ☠
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Josh Heumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I >> missed? > > I can't answer your question directly, but in looking at the questions > you link to, something strikes me as odd: there are at l

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shawn Boyette ☠ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-16 13:30]: > I wondered this myself. My guess is (1) they're dissociated > from what I think of as "the Perl community" (which is why i > tried to stress it in my post on stackoverflow) and (2) google > for "perl unit testing". Yes. There are lots and

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-16 13:25]: > You need a +15 modifier of nothingbettertodoism to vote. Thankfully, it is very, *very* easy to rack up those points: getting one of your posts upvoted gives you 10 points. So it’s just a minimal barrier so you can’t register a horde of smur

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Ovid
--- On Tue, 16/9/08, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think they limit votes the way PM does I only have 9 votes left today :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So everyone gainfully employed because they know what they are doing is > automatically disqualified? I don't think they limit votes the way PM does, and it only takes two upvotes to get qualified to vote up, so we just n

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:23:16AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Josh Heumann > # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 02:37: > > >Shouldn't the people who post more-or-less agreeing solutions vote > > each other's solution up? > > Yes. Now try to do it ;-) > > You need a +15 modifier of nothingb

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Shawn Boyette ☠
I wondered this myself. My guess is (1) they're dissociated from what I think of as "the Perl community" (which is why i tried to stress it in my post on stackoverflow) and (2) google for "perl unit testing". I agree that it's an unhappy state of affairs, but probably not an uncommon one, and almo

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Josh Heumann # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 02:37: >Shouldn't the people who post more-or-less agreeing solutions vote > each other's solution up? Yes. Now try to do it ;-) You need a +15 modifier of nothingbettertodoism to vote. --Eric -- "Because understanding simplicity is complicat

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Josh Heumann
> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I > missed? I can't answer your question directly, but in looking at the questions you link to, something strikes me as odd: there are at least six posts by people recommending TAP-friendly solutions, and only two mention