Re: %ENV not tainted! (was Re: What tests are failing on VMS?)

2001-09-23 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 2:39 AM -0400 9/23/01, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >I just ran the taint tests. It looks like VMS's %ENV is *not* tainted. > >$ perl -"Twle" "my $foo = (values %ENV)[0]; open(FILE, qq{>$foo})" >Name "main::FILE" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1. > >Whereas on Unix that would cause a

CPAN::Test mistake list on Wiki

2001-09-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
CPAN::Test (formerly CPAN::Smoke), the automatic smoke testing arm of CPANTS, is undergoing sea trials. Those of you on cpan-testers might have noticed a big spurt of traffic recently. :) Besides simply building each module and seeing if the tests pass, CPAN::Test has a number of common mistake

The problem of test.pl

2001-09-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
Most people don't realize this, but test.pl doesn't really work outside the core. MakeMaker runs module tests in t/*.t are run through Test::Harness. test.pl is *not*. As a result, there is no parsing of the output. The only way "make test" can fail is if test.pl exits abnormally. A 'not ok' wi

Re: What tests are failing on VMS?

2001-09-23 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 2:20 AM -0400 9/23/01, Michael G Schwern wrote: >Ok, after applying 12124 (so everything's using File::Spec and not >Cwd) I still have problems with case differences. > >not ok 2 - abs_path() agrees ># Failed test (t/op/chdir.t at line 26) ># got: 'USER1:[SCHWERN.PERL.T]' >#

Re: Compaq Testdrive

2001-09-23 Thread Zach Lipton
On 9/23/01 2:03 AM, "Simon Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 07:38:22PM -0700, Zach Lipton wrote: >> Actually, once the tinderbox server is set-up (still not sure how this is >> coming) why not turn this into tinderbox clients? > > Because they don't allow outgoing net

Re: Compaq Testdrive

2001-09-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 07:38:22PM -0700, Zach Lipton wrote: > Actually, once the tinderbox server is set-up (still not sure how this is > coming) why not turn this into tinderbox clients? Because they don't allow outgoing network connections. You'd have to be pretty clever about getting your res

RE: Compaq Testdrive

2001-09-23 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 23-Sep-01 Tels tried to scribble about: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Just wait until the script kiddies detect this - your faith in humanity > is > great... There is a ";)" missingsorry ;o) - -- perl -MMath::String -e 'print \ Math::

RE: Compaq Testdrive

2001-09-23 Thread Brent Dax
Michael G Schwern: # I completely forgot I had this. # # Compaq has a program called "Testdrive" where they offer free accounts # on a VERY wide range of machines & OS's. Tru64, Caldera, Debian, # Redhat, Kondara, OpenVMS, Mandrake, SuSE, Turbo, NetBSD, FreeBSD, # Beowulf, iPAQ on Alpha, x86 and

RE: Compaq Testdrive

2001-09-23 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 22-Sep-01 Michael G Schwern tried to scribble about: > I completely forgot I had this. > > Compaq has a program called "Testdrive" where they offer free accounts > on a VERY wide range of machines & OS's. Tru64, Caldera, Debian, > Redhat, Kondara, Ope