On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:04:49PM -0600, chromatic wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2001 11:54, you wrote: > > > So why is this tested using a mock-up by Net::Config? Sounds like > > a job the Socket should be testing (and it is). > > Oh, no! It's not. Mock::Socket is just a dummy object with the same > interface as Socket. It lets the test control the data sent back to > Net::Config. The test doesn't care whether or not Socket works. That's > *way* out of the scope of Net::Config. The real Socket.pm should never be > loaded.
Hmmm. That sounds a little bit better. > > I hope you have noticed that the baseline is rather low. > > As long as it's marked... :) As I tried to explain, it's currently not marked anywhere else than in short-lived emissions of photons as the poorly explained test failures whizz by the eyes of the person doing the build. > -- c -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
