Re: Easy-bake perlbug email interface

2001-10-27 Thread Robert
When they work, you can CC special addresses in a reply, and things happen. For example, if you cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] the ticket will be closed. I don't remember the exact syntax, but I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] will close it as notabug. Other keywords include 'patch' 'note', etc. Join them with

Descriptive strings in Test::More ?

2001-06-18 Thread Kirrily Robert
g "Strings aren't blank"). I thought those strings were meant to output during the testing, to show you what it's testing for. Am I confused? K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ Real programmers don't bring brown-bag lunches. If the vending machine doesn't sell it, they don't eat it. Vending machines don't sell quiche.

Descriptive strings?

2001-06-18 Thread Kirrily Robert
ings were meant to output during the testing, to show you what it's testing for. Am I confused? K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ "My secret weapon is PMS." -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Re: Docs on testing?

2001-06-20 Thread Kirrily Robert
ere any (or plans to create any) docs that explain how to >write tests? I believe I volunteered to do that the other day. More fool me :) K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ There's nothing wrong with me; therefore, there must be something wrong with the universe.

Re: Descriptive strings?

2001-06-20 Thread Kirrily Robert
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:42:29PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: | | I assume you're talking about "make test"? Test::Harness in | non-verbose mode (ie. "make test") won't display any of that info. If | you set $verbose = 1 you'll see all the test output. For failed tests | it will just repo

Re: QA-esque summary of TPC

2001-07-31 Thread Kirrily Robert
common/popular documentation markup language. This means that you don't have to know all of Docbook to write Docbook -- you can write in this cut-down, intermediate level: DocPOD 5. There are some modules for doing the translation etc, see DocPod::*, presumably on CPAN. HTH, K. -- Kirrily

Re: Pod::Coverage random silliness

2001-08-29 Thread Kirrily Robert
In perl.qa, you wrote: >On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:56:30PM -0400, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: >> This script... > >Nifty, mind if I assimilate it as an example script? Not at all. Credit as Kirrily "Skud" Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> please. K. --

ANNOUNCE: Test::Mail 0.03

2001-09-16 Thread Kirrily Robert
Now winging its way towards CPAN mirrors worldwide. I've implemented it pretty much as described the other day. Comments etc welcome. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ "Sure, only 2 percent of the Internet population uses lynx, bu

Re: Test::Harness::Straps

2001-09-20 Thread Kirrily Robert
ms. I rewrote all the test analysis logic and I still afraid I >broke something. We're probably going to start using it for e-smith's testing foo. I've dinked around with it briefly, enough to know that it does roughly what I want, but I'm not on any kind of unusual platform o

Re: Wiki Wiki not Wiki Working

2001-09-19 Thread Kirrily Robert
In perl.qa, you wrote: >Will do. No! Read on! It's been done already. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ Any sufficiently fucked-up technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Re: [PATCH] More Test::More stuff

2001-09-24 Thread Kirrily Robert
! It says something like: not ok 23 # Failed test 1 (eval.t at line 69) # got: 'blah blah blah' # expected: '' K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ "There are three degrees of being weird. There are: 1) Salvageably weird. 2) Weird. 3) Irrevocably weird." -- Carrie Fisher

Re: What tests are failing on VMS?

2001-09-22 Thread Kirrily Robert
In perl.qa, you wrote: >So like I said, either tests are habitually failing on vmsperl, or >nobody's compiled Perl on OS/390 in a long time (I wouldn't be >surprised if that were true). I assume you mean "MVS"? K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PRO

Re: Wiki Wiki Working

2001-09-17 Thread Kirrily Robert
In perl.qa, you wrote: > >If someone would be so kind as to fill in TestTutorial from the latest >version of Test::Tutorial? Done. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ "Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer." -- Peter da Silva

Re: FAIL Module-InstalledVersion-0.02 cygwin-multi 1.3.2(0.3932)

2001-09-13 Thread Kirrily Robert
In perl.qa, you wrote: >On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:41:39 -0400 >Kirrily 'Skud' Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anyone know what might cause this? The same reporter also had the same >> problem with CPAN-Test-Reporter. > >His Test::Harness nee

Re: Test::Harness in Test-SDK conflicts with Perl

2001-10-09 Thread Kirrily Robert
l community") should define these things so that different packagers (Debian, Red Hat, whoever) can have somewhat-consistent packages. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ If it's not broken, break it.

Re: Test::Builder: Multiple test libraries in one test.

2001-12-19 Thread Kirrily Robert
re that handles incoming email. Doesn't implement any of its own ok()-like routines at all, just makes it easy to use Test::More's routines on incoming email. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ Usenet: open mouth, insert foot, propagate internationally

Re: is() with arbitrary comparisions

2001-12-19 Thread Kirrily Robert
In perl.qa, you wrote: >I think I have a solution to the rigidity of is(). ie. something with >the diagnostic output of is(), but the flexibility of ok(). >It all makes sense, so what I really need is a better name. How about: compare($foo, "<=", $bar) K. -- Kirrily

Re: [perl #15479] perl 5.8.0 segfault

2002-07-31 Thread Robert Spier
>> And where did the p5p FAQ get to? >MJD said he was taking it off his website... or do you mean the serious one? Do you mean this? http://simon-cozens.org/writings/p5p-faq If someone wants to become a new champion for it, we can keep it on http://dev.perl.org/perl5. (Another way to enable th

Re: Why not a smoke db ?

2002-09-23 Thread Robert Spier
Alain Barbet writes: >> Have you seen http://tinderbox.perl.org ? I've personally found that >> useful for monitoring Parrot, though it's not obvious how well it would >> scale for large numbers of smoke-test configurations. > >No I didn't know this, but find some good idea in this system too. >I

Re: WWW::Mechanize 0.37 released

2003-03-06 Thread Robert Spier
> Help me out here. I'm trying to imagine why someone would want > WWW::Mechanize without a net connection. Or are you saying that people > will want to use it strictly behind a restrictive firewall where > google.com isn't accessible? Yes. -R

Re: WWW::Mechanize 0.37 released

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Spier
> There really aren't many tests that are meaningful without that access. > 00.load.t, 99.pod and add_header.t are all that seem to be valid > without it. You could allow the user to choose between internal and external tests, where the internal tests are much simpler, maybe including a trivi

Re: confused by Devel::Cover

2001-08-06 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
| > Can anyone please clarify this a bit? | | With respect to exercising modules, this should all work. Did the | module pass its own tests? Actually, there's only one test at the | moment, but it does include a module. What you did should have worked. | You should have got a report about t/f

Pod::Coverage random silliness

2001-08-28 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
This script... #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Pod::Coverage; use ExtUtils::Installed; my $m = ExtUtils::Installed->new; my @modules = $m->modules(); print "Checking POD coverage...\n"; my %coverage; foreach my $mod (@modules) { my $pc = new Pod::Coverage package => $mod; $coverag

Fwd: FAIL Module-InstalledVersion-0.02 cygwin-multi 1.3.2(0.3932)

2001-09-13 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
Anyone know what might cause this? The same reporter also had the same problem with CPAN-Test-Reporter. K. This distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testers effort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. See http://testers.cpan.org/ Please cc any replies to [EMAIL PRO

Test::Mail request for comments

2001-09-13 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
* Sending output somewhere more useful than a logfile * Integrating into a real "test suite" that's friendly to Test::Harness * Handling MIME in a suitable way SEE ALSO the Test::More manpage, the Mail::Header manpage, the Mail::Audit manpage AUTHOR Kirrily "Skud" Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

testing web foo with Test::More

2001-10-07 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
OK, I've been putting off figuring this out for ages, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Inline 'WebChat'; use Test::More 'no_plan'; ok(google(), "Can get google"); __END__ __WebChat__ sub google { GET http://google.

Test::More and WWW::Chat fighting over fail()

2001-10-07 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
Both Test::More and WWW::Chat export a routine called fail(). This makes it rather hard to write tests for web stuff using both these modules. Since WWW::Chat's fail() is only used internally, could I possibly request that it be changed to not export, and/or rename it _fail, or whatever. Anythi

Test::Harness in Test-SDK conflicts with Perl

2001-10-07 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
I've built an RPM of Test-SDK using cpan2rpm, and when I try to install it on a Red Hat system it says: [root@e-smith skud]# rpm -Uvh perl-Test-SDK-0.04-1.i386.rpm Preparing...### [100%] file /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Test/Harness.pm from instal

Re: testing web foo with Test::More

2001-10-09 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:17:06AM -0400, Shane Landrum wrote: | On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 03:30:58PM -0400, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |wrote: | > OK, I've been putting off figuring this out for ages, but here it is: | | | | Another way to accomplish the

Re: is() with arbitrary comparisions

2001-12-19 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:50:12PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:52:12PM -0500, Kirrily Robert wrote: > > Are we doing the time warp again, or are the Huskies just tired of > pulling the packets across the border? > > > > How abou

Interactive tests?

2002-02-13 Thread Kirrily 'Skud&#x27; Robert
Using Test::More, how can I intersperse stuff for user interaction? For instance: print "Please enter the hostname/ip for the server [localhost]: "; my $host = ; print "Please enter the admin password [default]: "; my $password = ; $agent = esmith::FormMagick::Tester->new(host => $host, password