Op een mooie herfstdag (Wednesday 23 October 2002 21:43), schreef Alain BARBET:
> Abe Timmerman wrote: > > It took some time as the daytime job drained my energy :-( > > Sorry to not reply more quickly to your mail. Thanks to take time for > the perl smoke database .... > but: > - I've made three days after my request to you the program I want. > - When I see your mail, I take times to look at them, but I've some > problem with it: > 1/ Always man pages is display without I comment call of it > (you forgot a short syntax for man pages) Bugger, that is a silly mistake, teaches me to not do anything without a testsuite (again)! patch still enclosed: --- fetch-reports.pl~ Wed Oct 16 17:52:30 2002 +++ fetch-reports.pl Thu Oct 24 00:22:47 2002 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ rdir => 'reports', v => 0, help => 0, - man => 1, + man => 0, ); use vars qw( $VERSION ); @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ --group <newsgroupname> --rdir <directoryname> (for storing message-bodies) --debug [level= 0 | 1 | 2] - -V | --verbose + -v | --verbose -h | --help (this one) --man (the full manpage) EndOfPatch > 2/ Files created only created path of files (why???). Hmmm... sorry, I don't understand you :-( > Don't take times to correct this, I will use my script with your > documentation: (I learning your help syntax to grow my documentation). > I think to share a CPAN module (something like Test-Smoke-Database) that > containt all needed script to maintain a smoke db, and put it on CPAN. > Then just a mirror page must be maintain on qa.perl.org. Yes, I think we should see if this can be put up somewhere in the '.perl.org' domain. > For this, I think to the FAQ section that miss today for alianwebserver > db. This can take as POD documentation of the module. Can you correct > this for a more correct english ? I'd like to try, but currently your FAQ section is not there, do you want me to start something from the Test::Smoke documentation? > One more times, sorry to answer too late for your contribution (think to > my 2 monster tweens Marine & Perle that eat all my energy :-), and > thanks for your work. Oh well, never mind, family is important too. > PS: Test::Smoke VERSION 1.16 works fine without update for win32/mingw, > as you can see on my report to Hugo. Now I will take time for Borland > and VC++. Good to hear, and it is good a thing your patch finaly made it so we can smoke with MinGW-2.0 "out of the box" (I shall continue to do so). I am interested to see the results for BCC (Yves is now smoking MSVC7 I think, so Win32 should be pretty well covered) good luck, Abe -- Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org perl -Mstrict -wle 'sub Just{&$_}sub another{&$_}sub Perl{&$_}sub hacker{&$_}$_=sub{(split /::/,(caller $^W)[3])[-$^W].$"};print@{[Just,another,Perl,hacker]}'