Re: CPANTS: released_while_burning_midnight_oil

2005-11-14 Thread Ovid
--- "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ian Langworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:15]: > > PS. If you feel that sarcasm and satire are not best reflected > > in email, I cordially suggest that you eat a helicopter. > > What wine is more appropriate with helicopters, though, white

Re: CPANTS: released_while_burning_midnight_oil

2005-11-14 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ian Langworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:15]: > PS. If you feel that sarcasm and satire are not best reflected > in email, I cordially suggest that you eat a helicopter. What wine is more appropriate with helicopters, though, white or red? Regards, -- Aristotle “If you can’t laugh at y

Re: RFC: Test::JSON

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:17:05PM -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 12:45 -0800, Ovid wrote: > > > Yes, I can see that. I could actually have dropped Test::Differences > > "eq_or_diff" and just used the "is_deeply" function from Test::More, > > but when working with large data str

Re: RFC: Test::JSON

2005-11-14 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 12:45 -0800, Ovid wrote: > Yes, I can see that. I could actually have dropped Test::Differences > "eq_or_diff" and just used the "is_deeply" function from Test::More, > but when working with large data structures, there's just no comparison > between the two. I suppose I co

Re: RFC: Test::JSON

2005-11-14 Thread Ovid
--- Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My main comment would be that it can be very easy to get seduced in > to dependency bloat when writing Test:: modules, and you should pay > extra attention to avoiding it if possible. Yes, I can see that. I could actually have dropped Test::Differenc

Re: CPANTS: released_while_burning_midnight_oil

2005-11-14 Thread Ovid
--- Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, this gives me an idea! Let's also add > released_while_not_under_the_influence. Authors could be required to > pass a breathalyser test to make sure that they are not drunk while > uploading to the PAUSE. I'm sure that the incidence of si

Re: CPANTS: released_while_burning_midnight_oil

2005-11-14 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 14:02 -0500, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote: > Hey, this gives me an idea! Let's also add > released_while_not_under_the_influence. Authors could be required to > pass a breathalyser test to make sure that they are not drunk while > uploading to the PAUSE. I'm sure that the inc

Re: CPANTS: released_while_burning_midnight_oil

2005-11-14 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
Ian Langworth wrote: I propose a new Kwalitee metric, released_while_burning_midnight_oil. Authors who released their modules between 8AM and 1AM the next day (local time) will be awarded one point. Authors who, despite their girlfriend's pleading, stay awake at stupid hours of the night to hack

Private tests

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Dolan
Hello all, I've just published an article about public vs. private regression tests. Private ones are t/*.t files that are for the author only and don't go in MANIFEST. Naturally, those don't get as much publicity as tests included in CPAN distributions. In the article I advocate that s

Re: RFC: Test::JSON

2005-11-14 Thread Adam Kennedy
My main comment would be that it can be very easy to get seduced in to dependency bloat when writing Test:: modules, and you should pay extra attention to avoiding it if possible. This is especially so if you have a dependency on a Module::Build Test:: modules, which is going to want to instal

Private tests

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Dolan
Hello all, I've just published an article about public vs. private regression tests. I've defined private tests as t/*.t files that are for the author only and don't go in MANIFEST. Naturally, those don't get as much publicity as tests included in CPAN distributions. In the article I ad

CPANTS: released_while_burning_midnight_oil

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Langworth
I propose a new Kwalitee metric, released_while_burning_midnight_oil. Authors who released their modules between 8AM and 1AM the next day (local time) will be awarded one point. Authors who, despite their girlfriend's pleading, stay awake at stupid hours of the night to hack on and then release Per