[ANNOUNCE] Test::Simple 0.47

2002-08-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.47.tar.gz Two major bugs were added in 0.46. Objects would accidentally be stored internally causing destructors not to fire when people expected them to. Also ithread support was broken. These have both been fixed. 0.47 Mon Aug 26 03:54:22 PDT

Testing POSIX locale support

2002-08-26 Thread John Peacock
I have a module, Math::Currency, which tries to be very smart with regard to POSIX locale settings when defining the default currency formatting. However, since I can only test on _my_ systems, I am limited in my ability to guess all of the strange locale settings that may be in use. Specific

Re: Add Test::Harness 2.x Prerequisite to Test::Simple?

2002-08-26 Thread Adrian Howard
On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 08:22 am, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:48:45AM +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: >> I've added a patch to Test::Exception (should have spotted that... >> *bad* >> Adrian :-). It should be hitting CPAN in the next few minutes. > > You shouldn't

Re: Testing POSIX locale support

2002-08-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:05:26PM -0400, John Peacock wrote: > I have a module, Math::Currency, which tries to be very smart with regard > to POSIX locale settings when defining the default currency formatting. > However, since I can only test on _my_ systems, I am limited in my ability > to

Re: Testing POSIX locale support

2002-08-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:05:26PM -0400, John Peacock wrote: > Specifically, in order to test that the locale stuff is working, I need to > have two different locales installed to switch between. Currently, I am > using en_US and en_GB, but obviously that ignores most of the planet. > > I was

CPAN Upload: S/SB/SBURKE/Test-1.21.tar.gz

2002-08-26 Thread Sean M. Burke
The new version of Test (v1.21) is entering CPAN, and is in being added to blead. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

Re: Testing POSIX locale support

2002-08-26 Thread John Peacock
Michael G Schwern wrote: > What you should probably do is emit further diagnostic information on what > the test failure might mean like: > > is($this, $that) || diag(< Please check that your $locale_i_was_testing_with locale is fully > installed and try again. Otherwise, contact the auth

Re: Testing POSIX locale support

2002-08-26 Thread John Peacock
Nicholas Clark wrote: > > So you may wish to install fa_IR and test with that. > Ick! Another one! AFAICT, Perl's locale does not recognize UTF multibyte characters, as I discovered with ja_JP.UTF-8 (which has a UTF representation for Yen if I am not very much mistaken). I think I am going