Phalanx at YAPC::NA::2005

2005-06-02 Thread James E Keenan
On Monday, June 27, Marc Prewitt and I will be making a presentation at YAPC::NA::2005 in Toronto entitled "Phalanx from the Trenches: A Local Perl Users Group's Experience." While the main focus of our talk will be on our experience with the Perl Seminar NY Phalanx contingent's work on Text-

Re: Phalanx 100 list

2005-06-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:57:24PM +0200, David Landgren wrote: > >My understanding is that inclusion on the Phalanx 100 doesn't constitute > >any sort of endorsement of the modules. It's hopefully a statement that > >the module is widely used, but not a judgment on whether it ought to be. > >

Re: Module::Build::TestReporter 1.00 Preview

2005-06-02 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:57 +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: > Getting some test failures on vanilla OS X 10.4.1 (see below). Not > got time to dig into causes at the moment. I've bumped up the Test-Simple version requirement in Build.PL to fix this. > Looks nice though. Like the roles stuff. Than

Re: Phalanx 100 list

2005-06-02 Thread Andy Lester
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:48:30AM -0400, Dave Paris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It was brought to my attention that Crypt::DES is included in the > Phalanx 100 list. While I'm flattered, I think this should be replaced > by a better symmetrical crypto module like Crypt::Rijndael. Don't be fla

Re: Phalanx 100 list

2005-06-02 Thread David Landgren
Kevin Scaldeferri wrote: My understanding is that inclusion on the Phalanx 100 doesn't constitute any sort of endorsement of the modules. It's hopefully a statement that the module is widely used, but not a judgment on whether it ought to be. They are not endorsed, but they are considered "im

Re: Phalanx 100 list

2005-06-02 Thread Kevin Scaldeferri
On Jun 2, 2005, at 3:48 AM, Dave Paris wrote: Greetings, It was brought to my attention that Crypt::DES is included in the Phalanx 100 list. While I'm flattered, I think this should be replaced by a better symmetrical crypto module like Crypt::Rijndael. The reasoning is simple. Crypt::DE

Phalanx 100 list

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Paris
Greetings, It was brought to my attention that Crypt::DES is included in the Phalanx 100 list. While I'm flattered, I think this should be replaced by a better symmetrical crypto module like Crypt::Rijndael. The reasoning is simple. Crypt::DES is terribly weak and slow by comparison. The

Re: Module::Build::TestReporter 1.00 Preview

2005-06-02 Thread Adrian Howard
On 2 Jun 2005, at 10:01, Michael G Schwern wrote: [snip] Test::More 0.48_02 introduced a change where it would put a leading newline before its diagnostics when running under Test::Harness. Looks like the test expected that. You're probably running Test::More 0.47. [snip] Bah. I knew that

Re: Module::Build::TestReporter 1.00 Preview

2005-06-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:57:21PM +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: > ok 15 - ... having cleared out any existing failures > # Failed test (t/base.t at line 95) > # Structures begin differing at: > # $got->{failures}[0]{diagnostics} = 'Failed test > (fake_tests/fail.t at line 9) >

Writing tests for threaded applications

2005-06-02 Thread Clayton, Nik
Folks, Can anyone recommend any texts on testing applications and libraries that are supposed to work with threads? How to force race conditions, that sort of thing? N

Re: Module::Build::TestReporter 1.00 Preview

2005-06-02 Thread Adrian Howard
On 30 May 2005, at 22:23, chromatic wrote: [snip] I'd love to have feedback before I release it to the CPAN in a week or so. [snip] Getting some test failures on vanilla OS X 10.4.1 (see below). Not got time to dig into causes at the moment. Looks nice though. Like the roles stuff. Adrian