On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:35:02 -0400, Patrick Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > For those of you here who maintain drivers, what is your strategy for > testing your driver with all the different versions of the DB, different As my audience for DBD::Unify is very very small, my strategy is to be sure it works on all systems I have (HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2.0.0) for the most recent version of DBI and the most recent version of stable perl (5.8.8 now) I also tend to test on bleadperl (devel) and the most recent maint branch (5.8.x). I get feedback from someone at Unify who uses it himself. The release docs (README) say on what version the release was tested. > OSs, OS versions, client API versions? This is one thing that takes even > longer than development, and I'm wondering if there is a better way than > how I test, which is to just keep around serveral versions of MySQL and > test on various OSs. Thoughts, suggestions, and opinions welcome! > > Kind regards, > > Patrick > -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.2, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
