Re: Getting Cruft off of CPANTS

2006-09-25 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:30:06PM -0600, Randy J. Ray wrote: I asked this once before, but rather than getting an answer, someone just did it. There are some modules that I've deleted completely from CPAN; one was because I renamed the top-level of the namespace (per conversation with

Test::Simple: 'make test' fail with 'lock can only be used on shared values'

2006-09-25 Thread Florian Scharinger
Hi all, I have troubles building Test-Simple-0.64 on a standard SL3 machine: perl Makefile.PL make make test several threading related tests fail, e.g.: - t/threads.Thread 1 terminated abnormally: lock can only be used on shared values at

Re: Test::Simple: 'make test' fail with 'lock can only be used on shared values'

2006-09-25 Thread chromatic
On Monday 25 September 2006 02:41, Florian Scharinger wrote: I have troubles building Test-Simple-0.64 on a standard SL3 machine: perl Makefile.PL make make test several threading related tests fail, e.g.: - t/threads.Thread 1 terminated abnormally: lock

Re: Test::Simple: 'make test' fail with 'lock can only be used on shared values'

2006-09-25 Thread Ovid
From: Florian Scharinger I have troubles building Test-Simple-0.64 on a standard SL3 machine: snip several threading related tests fail, e.g.: snip -bash-2.05b$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: From the Test::Simple Changes file for

Re: Test::Simple: 'make test' fail with 'lock can only be used on shared values'

2006-09-25 Thread Florian Scharinger
Thx for the quick replies (also to Ovid). I'll see if we can upgrade to = 5.8.1, let's see. Florian. On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, chromatic wrote: On Monday 25 September 2006 02:41, Florian Scharinger wrote: I have troubles building Test-Simple-0.64 on a standard SL3 machine: perl

Re: What should be captured in automated test reports?

2006-09-25 Thread David Golden
On 9/25/06, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the above (and maybe the rest of the details) should be included in the success reports as well. Sometimes there seem to be two reports from the same source a failure and then a success. It would be very useful to be able to see what has

Re: Testing for test labels

2006-09-25 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Chris Dolan wrote: On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote: Ok, I'll play your game. :-) http://perlcritic.tigris.org/svn/perlcritic/trunk/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/Policy/Testing/ [Assuming I'm not silly] Empty! Rev. 667 -=Chris D'oh! SVN commits work better if

prove vs. inc

2006-09-25 Thread Christopher H. Laco
While trying to install the latest PPI from svn, I noticed that running 'dmake test' passed, and 'prove -b t/' failed. As more and more people use Module::Install, it seems more and more transient build/test related modules are being stuffed in the inc/ directory. Given the talk about installers

How should CPAN Testers treat failing builds?

2006-09-25 Thread David Golden
Two tickets on CPAN::Reporter have prompted the question of the role of CPAN Testers in capturing build failures versus test failures -- i.e. failures in Makefile.PL/Build.PL or in make/Build. * http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21691 *

Re: OT: cross-platform path handling

2006-09-25 Thread Jonathan Rockway
BTW, my Directory::Scratch module is meant to solve this problem. At the top of your program you: use Directory::Scratch YourOS and all path names passed to the module are interpreted as though they're from YourOS, even when running on some other OS. This means that you can use UNIX path

[ANNOUNCE] smolder 1.00

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Peters
Smolder 1.00 has finally been tagged and released. Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/smolder Smolder is a Open Source Perl smoke test aggregator used primarily to collect the results of automated test runs and distribute those to users. An introduction is given in my slides from the

Re: Testing for test labels

2006-09-25 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Chris Dolan wrote: On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote: Ok, I'll play your game. :-) http://perlcritic.tigris.org/svn/perlcritic/trunk/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/Policy/Testing/ [Assuming I'm not silly] Empty! Rev. 667 -=Chris D'oh! SVN commits work better if

Re: Testing for test labels

2006-09-25 Thread Chris Dolan
On Sep 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote: Now, for part 2. :-) What's the sanest way to test t/*.t files without also testing everything in t/lib ? If I'm already using all_critic_ok(), I can't just call critic_ok() on all the t/*.t files because a plan has already been set.

Re: Bug in prove or Test::Class?

2006-09-25 Thread Adrian Howard
On 22 Sep 2006, at 09:11, Ovid wrote: I don't have time to track this down, but I've noticed the following when I run my Test::Class tests through prove: [snip] As you may notice, you see the diagnostics from the TODO failures. As Schwern has noted repeatedly: The user should not