--- demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a thought but recently there has been a bit of work on p5p about > getting smoke testing of perl working properly on Win32. > > One of the critical problems is of hanging tests causing the smoke > process to stall.
I suppose timeouts would be a good thing to include. I'll touch base with Andy on that. > I also think you should take some time to review the various test > harnesses used to build perl, assuming you havent already of course. > They arent the same necessarily on *nix as on Win32 and being > familiar > with the features and quirks of the two systems will definitely > improve your odds of a core integration long term. I've focused mainly on the roadmap that Schwern has put out and one core goal is to write TAPx::Harness::Compatible to have that be a backwards compatible version to Test::Harness. That's enough work right now to keep Andy and myself busy for a while. > Likewise you should review the work of the smoke suite for handling > oddball cases like VMS, you certainly shouldnt think that windows > will > be the oddest platform your code will run on if it is core > integrated. Well, so far, I have one bugfix in their to handle a special case on vms, but otherwise, I've never gotten a failure report for it and I don't have access to a vms system. Very frustrating. > Just some thoughts that ive been saving up and meaning to send, and > this mail happened to be on a more or less relevent topic. Thanks. I appreciate it! Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
