Re: Maximum size of test reports

2007-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:59:21PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > (b) plenty of modules test warnings by sending stuff to STDERR. > (Probably shouldn't but they do.) They not only shouldn't, but simply printing to STDERR to test something to do with warnings is a bug. To test a warning, you need t

Re: Maximum size of test reports

2007-10-06 Thread David Golden
On 10/6/07, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It wouldn't be the first time a module had had OS-specific features. In > this case, "if you're on Unix you can ...". CPAN::Reporter already uses Win32::Process when it needs to honor CPAN interactivity_timeout requests. (Which I do plan to

Re: Maximum size of test reports

2007-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
Barbie wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:46:13AM -0400, David Golden wrote: >> I might be able to build that kind of a kill as a parameter to Tee -- >> if the tee file exceeds a certain size, then kill the process. But >> even that might require some real work to be portable. Forks and >> timeo

Re: Maximum size of test reports

2007-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
David Golden wrote: > On 10/5/07, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> David Cantrell wrote: >>> From a quick look over the reports I've sent this month, 40K looks like >>> a good cutoff point. Add the introductory text, perl -V, and any >>> comments I might add by hand, and it'll still be