Re: Starting with a test 1

2001-09-29 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: Have you tried the Test::Builder thing yet? I think you should be able to solve your forking problem like so: Working on it use Test::More tests = 10; # or whatever. Except this needs to printed just once in the parent _before_ any tests

Re: Starting with a test 1

2001-09-29 Thread Piers Cawley
Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For my Alzabo tests, I do some weird stuff involving forking off processes during tests and running the same (basically same) set of tests multiple times, each time with different modules loaded. The parent process calculates how many tests will be

RE: Archive::Tar, Archive::Zip and Compress::Zlib need help

2001-09-29 Thread Paul Marquess
From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip are very essential modules. You use them every time you run the CPAN shell. However, their implementation could use a little work and the authors could use a little help. In all cases the need better tests,

Re: Archive::Tar, Archive::Zip and Compress::Zlib need help

2001-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:39:50AM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote: The subject says Compress::Zlib, but the body doesn't. Which is the typo? The subject. I'd thrown it into the list, I remember there having been some trouble with it a number of months ago, but then realized you're actively

Re: Essential Modules

2001-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:05:49PM +0200, Tels wrote: Is there _any_ way I can operate the Wiki with a username _without_ having cookies? Use a browser that lets you selectively turn cookies on and off on a per-site basis. Or do what I do, have the browser clear them all at the end of each

Re: Starting with a test 1

2001-09-29 Thread Dave Rolsky
On 29 Sep 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: If it's not a dumb question, why are you doing it that way? If you were using PerlUnit, aka Test::Unit::TestCase, you could do something like: Why am I doing what? Forking and starting tests at weird offsets? The forking is cause I need to load different

Re: Essential Modules

2001-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:52:55PM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: You should be able to write your own wiki in a couple of hours. I have one based around Class::DBI that I knocked up in a morning... All I really care is that it: A) works B) has some sort of history and rollback C) I don't have to

Re: Essential Modules

2001-09-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:52:55PM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: You should be able to write your own wiki in a couple of hours. I have one based around Class::DBI that I knocked up in a morning... Michael All I really care is that