On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:35:04PM -0700, Zach Lipton wrote: > > I don't know why this didn't occur to me before, but why not put this in a > > Wiki? > > That's a great idea! And by some shocking coincidence, we just happen > to have a perl-qa Wiki for you to add this to. :) > > http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa-wiki.cgi > > > > Also, how does one test Net::Ping when we can't guarantee a server to ping? > > We can't. Not unless we can persuade Jarkko to add a "Do you have a > working network connection?" Configure question. > > But we can check that all the methods are there, that ping failure > works gracefully (there's a class of guaranteed bogus IPs, I think) > and that the timeouts work. > How about testing on 127.0.0.1? > And, we *can* write tests that test pinging if there is a network > connection. And they can go into the CPAN module and be skipped in > the core. > > > -- > > Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ > Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One > I'm going to have to hurt you on principle. > /Lars Perl developer www.kultunaut.dk
