Re: Bug tracking and todo tests

2001-02-15 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
ps they could have an optional name? I was thinking more along the lines of ok(...); # passes todo(...); # doesn't (yet). -- Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.

Re: Bug tracking and todo tests

2001-02-15 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
ps they could have an optional name? I was thinking more along the lines of ok(...); # passes todo(...); # doesn't (yet). -- Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.

Re: Supressing "make test" jibber-jabber

2001-10-03 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
e >race. "This is a good excuse to drink some beer." At 10:30 in the >morning? "Well, it's past noon in Dublin," said teammate Mike >[Joseph] Schwern. "It's our duty." >-- "Sure, and It's a Great Day for Irish Runners" > Newsday, Sunday, March 20, 1988 -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

Re: Untested modules update: The Magic Number is 27

2001-12-27 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
bol) C > @symbols = dl_undef_symbols()C > dl_install_xsub($name, $symref [, $filename])C > $message = dl_error C > >so I guess that as much as that as possible, preferable all needs testing >(in an ideal world. As I found with Benchmark.t, trying to test everything >gets quite big. And it had less things than Dynaloader.) > >Nicholas Clark -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

Re: How to test for the absence of an infinite loop?

2002-03-18 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
ting a new >process, and I'm reluctant to start a new prcoess unless I have to, >because I have no idea what it does on Weird Platform X. And quite right too ;-) -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

Re: [ID 20020318.003] cannot open STDOUT into in memory variable

2002-03-20 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:13:11PM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: >> Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >> > For lexicals like your $stdout it is a glob ref - what you have there >> > stringifies it and there isn't a file

Eliminating the core-test BEGIN block (was Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting])

2002-08-30 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Foo/whatever.t > >or > > ./perl -I. -MTestInit ../lib/Foo/whatever.t > > >What it boils down to is how to you remove the need for the cargo-cult BEGIN >block in each test while still making it easy to run individual tests by >hand? -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

Re: Eliminating the core-test BEGIN block (was Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting])

2002-09-01 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:57:16AM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:54:15PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: >> >> Oh, one big lib/

Re: Eliminating the core-test BEGIN block (was Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting])

2002-09-03 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
gt; >./perl -MTestInit t/path/to/test.t > >but that will cause trouble when running tests with -T (because . is no >longer in the path). > >When tests are run using t/TEST (ie. "make test") are run with TestInit. So >strictly speaking the BEGIN block is redu

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-08 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
malloc may use mmap() instead/as well and may (but probably doesn't) return memory to OS ... -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-08 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
erface to polymorphistic > >So far, all I got was criticism. I asked for it. But no-one said it was useful. >(Or I didn't read between the lines enough). Getting sbrk(0) return is occasionaly useful. I am worried though that this isn't really perl's internals but OS's internals. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

RE: passing arguments to tests

2003-07-28 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Andrew Potozniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I'm afraid your code won't work. > >As stated below I got it to work with my example :-p > >>Okay, you've subclassed a functional module. But this means that >>you'll be >passing the package name as the first argument, not a test >>name. This will

Re: Phalanx has started, and I need perl-qa's help

2003-08-24 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Matthew O. Persico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:48:11 -0500, Andy Lester wrote: >[snip] >>The project page is at http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/. �Please take a >>look, tell me your thoughts, and if there are any serious ommissions >>from the Phalanx 100 module list... > >Tk? If

Re: Phalanx / CPANTS / Kwalitee

2003-10-15 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Thomas Klausner wrote: >> there are currently 4 dists on CPAN that only include a configure script >> (makepp-1.19, glist-0.9.17a10, swig1.1p5, shufflestat-0.0.3) >> >> 179 do not include any of Makefile.PL, Build.PL or configure. >> >> Quite a l

Re: Phalanx / CPANTS / Kwalitee

2003-10-15 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Could we infer that a distribution that comes with several Makefile.PLs >> >may have an overcomplicated build process, maybe indicating a low >> >kwalite

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-02-19 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >One thing to keep in mind is portability. In order for this to be useful >it has to run on pretty much all platforms. Unix, Windows, VMS, etc... >So I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. > > >On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:29:49PM +, Adrian Ho

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-02-22 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:35:28AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >One thing to keep in mind is portability. In order for this to be useful >> >it has to

RE: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Brian Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi Leon, > >> -Original Message- >> Does anyone have any features they'd like to see on the website? I'm >> looking at extracting more information (Perl version, platform) and >> having pages (and thus RSS) per author. > >If you're going to do RSS,

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-28 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Personally, I'm annoyed by dist that I cannot remove after installation. >If files are read-only, I'll have to do extra steps during deleting. So I >like dists which no read-only files. Which is why it's a Kwalitee indicator. >If we (whoever is interes

Re: dor and backwards compat (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Simple 0.49)

2004-11-03 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >No new keywords in perl-5.001 >New in perl-5.002: tied __DATA__ sysopen prototype >No new keywords in perl-5.003 >New in perl-5.004: __PACKAGE__ sysseek >New in perl-5.005: qr lock INIT >New in perl-5.6.0: CHECK our >No new keywords

Re: New kwalitee metric - eg/ directory

2006-04-08 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Steve Peters wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:52:18PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: > >[...] > >>> /eg scripts are a nice "hands-on" way of finding out how a module works >>> in real life. >>> >>> No distribution should be without one! >>> >> >> Unle