Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Andy Lester
I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get this released. I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the end, it's different now. xoa file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:01:17AM +0200, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: The only thing worth mentioning is that with perl 5.003, the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ perl5.003 Makefile.PL Can't locate ExtUtils/Command.pm in @INC at Makefile.PL line 4.

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:34:12AM +0200, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: On 2006-04-23, at 02:26:54 -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:01:17AM +0200, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: The only thing worth mentioning is that with perl 5.003, the following happens:

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Adrian Howard
On 23 Apr 2006, at 07:02, Andy Lester wrote: [snip] I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the end, it's different now. [snip] I'll just repeat what I left on Andy's blog here in case anybody agrees with me. I don't like the

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:07:18 +0100, Adrian Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Apr 2006, at 07:02, Andy Lester wrote: [snip] I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the end, it's different now. [snip] I'll just repeat what

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Marcus Holland-Moritz
On 2006-04-23, at 01:02:00 -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get this released. I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the end, it's different now. I've run it through a

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Marcus Holland-Moritz
On 2006-04-23, at 02:49:14 -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:34:12AM +0200, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: On 2006-04-23, at 02:26:54 -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:01:17AM +0200, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: The only

Re: =$fh vs *$fh

2006-04-23 Thread Audrey Tang
Larry Wall wrote: On the other hand, - makes a pretty pathetic fish operator. So for the sake of argument, let's keep it = for the moment. But ignoring the tail leads us to the head end of the fish. What do we do about $ARGS? We could say this: =$fh : *$fh :: = : * Now if you

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8917 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-23 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Sun Apr 23 08:02:50 2006 New Revision: 8917 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: The *() form now means *($/). * Clarified that $() etc are term-level macros. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Marcus Holland-Moritz
On 2006-04-23, at 02:26:54 -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:01:17AM +0200, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: The only thing worth mentioning is that with perl 5.003, the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ perl5.003 Makefile.PL

Re: Smoke [5.9.4] 27938 FAIL(X) linux 2.6.15-20-386 [debian] (i686/1 cpu)

2006-04-23 Thread Steve Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Automated smoke report for 5.9.4 patch 27938 kirk: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz (GenuineIntel 1994MHz) (i686/1 cpu) onlinux - 2.6.15-20-386 [debian] using cc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5) smoketime 17 hours 54 minutes (average 1 hour 7

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8918 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-23 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Sun Apr 23 09:07:38 2006 New Revision: 8918 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: * S04: the stop-parsing-on-bare-block rule for conditionals: if -e { say exists } { extra() } has also to stop parsing on pointies: if -e - $x { say exists } { extra() }

Re: =$fh vs *$fh

2006-04-23 Thread Juerd
Larry Wall skribis 2006-04-22 19:40 (-0700): Hmm, I almost never write scalar FH because I very rarely want to input a single line in list context. But leaving that aside... I've used it a lot. I do tend to use it less often as I move away from line based text documents for storage. [101

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread demerphq
On 4/23/06, H.Merijn Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:07:18 +0100, Adrian Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Apr 2006, at 07:02, Andy Lester wrote: [snip] I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the

Re: RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-23 Thread Alberto Simões
Anybody knows who is the TPF responsible for SoC? Thank you Alberto -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

Re: RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-23 Thread Alberto Simões
Alberto Simões wrote: Anybody knows who is the TPF responsible for SoC? You can contact us with any questions at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Alberto -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

Re: svn links for the Architecture section on the website?

2006-04-23 Thread Robert Spier
Given the recent explosion of svn commits in the synopses, and the fact that the versions of the synopses on the dev.perl.org/perl6 site are lagging a bit, would it make sense to add a link to the svn site to the Synopses page? I'd rather not. The ones on the dev site shouldn't have been

Re: Smoke [5.9.4] 27938 FAIL(X) linux 2.6.15-20-386 [debian] (i686/1 cpu)

2006-04-23 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
On 23/04/06, Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's happening above is that TEST cannot handle seeing tests come in out of order, while harness can. I'm scanning Test::Harness::TAP a bit, but it seems to be unspecified whether this is OK or not. Should TEST care if the tests are reported

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 23 April 2006 15:08, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:07:18 +0100, Adrian Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Apr 2006, at 07:02, Andy Lester wrote: [snip] I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:05, Shlomi Fish wrote: This debate demonstrates why a plugin system is necessary for a test harness. No, it demonstrates why a well-defined test output protocol is useful. -- c

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 23 April 2006 22:35, chromatic wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:05, Shlomi Fish wrote: This debate demonstrates why a plugin system is necessary for a test harness. No, it demonstrates why a well-defined test output protocol is useful. I agree that a well-defined test output

Re: RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-23 Thread Alberto Simões
Regarding my SoC proposal, received as answer from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are not accepting proposals for mentors. If you have an idea for a student proposal. you can write it up similar to other ideas on the 'ideas' page, and the committee will probably decide to list it there. Now, the

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:46, Shlomi Fish wrote: I agree that a well-defined test output protocol is useful. However, are you implying that assuming we have that, one can write several different test harnesses to process such test outputs? (I'm just guessing.) No. Wouldn't that imply

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:02:00AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get this released. Tests pass. One not numeric warning: t/00compile.ok 1/6Argument 2.57_06 isn't numeric in subroutine entry at t/lib/Test/More.pm line 670

[perl #38202] [TODO] divide by zero exceptions for PMCs

2006-04-23 Thread Jonathan Worthington via RT
[guest - Sat Apr 22 18:25:09 2006]: The attached patch implements and tests divide by zero exceptions for BigInt and Complex PMCs. It also tests divide by zero exceptions for float PMCs. float and integer PMCs are already properly handling divide by zero. Thanks, applied. Jonathan

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:02:00AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get this released. I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have failed. If you rely on the output at the end, it's different now. xoa

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 23 April 2006 23:11, chromatic wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:46, Shlomi Fish wrote: I agree that a well-defined test output protocol is useful. However, are you implying that assuming we have that, one can write several different test harnesses to process such test outputs?

Re: What version of perl is required?

2006-04-23 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Will Coleda schrieb: There was an agreement on 5.6.1 a few weeks back on IRC, if I recall correctly, I haven't heard anything about 5.8. This change was made here: r11744 | bernhard | 2006-02-26 05:55:39 -0500 (Sun, 26 Feb 2006) | 7 lines Configuration: - Sprinkle a few 'use warnings;'

Test::Memory::Cycle (well really Devel::Cycle) - support for closures

2006-04-23 Thread Yuval Kogman
Hi, Andy, I know you subscribe to perl-qa so I didn't CC. These two patches add support for detecting cycles in code references, using PadWalker, to Devel::Cycle and Test::Memory::Cycle. Currently this will silently stop working if PadWalker is not installed to keep things tidy - I personally

Re: Test::Memory::Cycle (well really Devel::Cycle) - support for closures

2006-04-23 Thread Yuval Kogman
Oops, bad patch. I added lib/Test/Memory/Cycle.pm as a symlink so that I don't have to 'make' each time to run the tests. -- Yuval Kogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418 pgpb5Xz3jyQ6k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Tels
Moin, On Sunday 23 April 2006 23:08, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 23:11, chromatic wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:46, Shlomi Fish wrote: I agree that a well-defined test output protocol is useful. However, are you implying that assuming we have that, one can write

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Michael Peters
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 22:35, chromatic wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:05, Shlomi Fish wrote: This debate demonstrates why a plugin system is necessary for a test harness. No, it demonstrates why a well-defined test output protocol is useful. I agree that a

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 23 April 2006 15:46, Michael Peters wrote: How about a good TAP parser module that does nothing but parse TAP. Then it could be used in all kinds of test harness permutations. That's exactly what I want and precisely why I think a well-defined TAP is more important than a plugin

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread James E Keenan
David H. Adler wrote: Tests pass. One not numeric warning: t/00compile.ok 1/6Argument 2.57_06 isn't numeric in subroutine entry at t/lib/Test/More.pm line 670 This is the same warning I reported in an earlier message: http://groups.google.com/group/perl.qa/msg/fee69dde25cf42ec

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread Andy Lester
This is the same warning I reported in an earlier message: http:// groups.google.com/group/perl.qa/msg/fee69dde25cf42ec Given the wise counsel of a former Phalanx strategos (every warning your test suite throws is a bug which must be tracked down), I spent several hours looking at this

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:14:01PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:02:00AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get this released. Tests pass. One not numeric warning: Of course, I forgot to mention: Perl