Re: Starting with a test > 1

2001-09-28 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

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

2001-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
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, clearer docs, tutorials and a general cleanup of the code.

Essential Modules

2001-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
One of the best ways to pound 5.8 release candidates will be to run it and 5.6.1 against heaps of CPAN modules and make sure that everything which works on 5.6.1 works on 5.8.0. In anticipation of this, I'd like to build a list of the modules that you all use in your day to day programming. This

Test::Harness 2.00_01 alpha

2001-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
A new version of the Test::Harness 2.00 alpha just went up. This has some small revisions to the Straps interface and integrates some bug fixes from the mainline. My major concern is that it get used, especially on non-Unixen. If someone has a Win32 box, give it a shot. http://www.pobox.com/~

Re: [PATCH] Test::More isa_ok function

2001-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:22:16PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote: > I've just written a small logging module and I want ot do this > > isa_ok($lj, "BlackStar::LumberJack", "I'm a LumberJack and I'm ok"); > > This feature is essential ;-) Reimplementing the chop() function? -- Michael G. Schw

Re: [PATCH] Test::More isa_ok function

2001-09-28 Thread Andrew Wilson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:40:15PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:23:58PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > The patch below allows you to supply your own test name for the isa_ok > > function (I find the default insufficiently descriptive). I'd like to do > > the same fo