Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Ovid
Has there been any final decision as to what to call test names? There was quite a bit of discussion, but I don't recall the resolution. Cheers, Ovid = If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list. Web Programming with Perl -- ht

Module::Packaged vs Phalanx 100

2005-02-05 Thread Leon Brocard
This is what you get when you set Module::Packaged against the Phalanx 100. So right now FreeBSD packages the most of Phalanx, and it's kinda interesting to see the version numbers. http://astray.com/tmp/phalanx.html Script: http://unixbeard.net/acme-svn/Module-Packaged/phalanx.pl (pass in

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 5, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Ovid wrote: Has there been any final decision as to what to call test names? There was quite a bit of discussion, but I don't recall the resolution. Nothing has been decided. I just don't like "name". xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Stevan Little
I sent Schwern a patch to change 'names' to 'description', but then Andy brought up the idea of 'labels'. At the time, Schwern said it was 'in the pipeline', but I expect its actually been moved out since. Personally, I view them as 'descriptions' since thats what I usually write. But 'labels'

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread David Golden
If this discussion means the voting has re-opened, I'm in favor of 'label' as it implies an identifying description, but also connotes something brief. David Stevan Little wrote: I sent Schwern a patch to change 'names' to 'description', but then Andy brought up the idea of 'labels'. At the time

Re: Module::Packaged vs Phalanx 100

2005-02-05 Thread Leon Brocard
Johan Vromans sent the following bits through the ether: > Definitely. I'm quite sure Getopt::Long is in _every_ distribution... Of course, this only notices individually-packaged CPAN dists (ignores the core). Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Ian Langworth
Stevan Little wrote: I sent Schwern a patch to change 'names' to 'description', but then Andy brought up the idea of 'labels'. At the time, Schwern said it was 'in the pipeline', but I expect its actually been moved out since. Personally, I view them as 'descriptions' since thats what I usually

Re: Module::Packaged vs Phalanx 100

2005-02-05 Thread Johan Vromans
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what you get when you set Module::Packaged against the Phalanx > 100. So right now FreeBSD packages the most of Phalanx, and it's kinda > interesting to see the version numbers. > > There might be bugs, Definitely. I'm quite sure Getopt::Long is

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Ian Langworth
Stevan Little wrote: I sent Schwern a patch to change 'names' to 'description', but then Andy brought up the idea of 'labels'. At the time, Schwern said it was 'in the pipeline', but I expect its actually been moved out since. Personally, I view them as 'descriptions' since thats what I usually

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Shawn Boyette
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:12:20 -0500, Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent Schwern a patch to change 'names' to 'description', but then > Andy brought up the idea of 'labels'. At the time, Schwern said it was > 'in the pipeline', but I expect its actually been moved out since. > > Person

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread chromatic
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:23 -0500, Shawn Boyette wrote: > Also, is anything ever *done* with these chunks of text? When I first > started using Test::More, I expected that I'd get that text when a > test failed instead of just a line number. Run the test with perl -Mblib instead of make test, ./B

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Ovid
--- chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alternately, encourage Andy to adopt some patch to > Test::Harness::Straps > that enables collecting that diagnostic information somehow and use > an alternate harness that displays test comments. Let me second that one! Of course, Andy's already made it

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread chromatic
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 16:39 -0800, Ovid wrote: > Let me second that one! Of course, Andy's already made it clear that > he doesn't have a lot of time, but I still don't mind kicking 'im. :) I think the right approach is to patch T::H::S to collect diagnostic information and make it available. I

Re: Test names/comments/whatever?

2005-02-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 5, 2005, at 6:47 PM, chromatic wrote: I think the right approach is to patch T::H::S to collect diagnostic information and make it available. It's easy enough to grab it via IPC::Open3 elsewhere and pass a combined STDOUT/STDERR filehandle to analyze_fh(). Agreed. My goal is to have Test::Ha