Re: Milton Keynes PM coding collaboration

2007-12-15 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Dec 11, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Edwardson, Tony wrote: Anyone written any CPAN modules for which the testing coverage needs to be improved ? Sure - one that particularly bothers me is Apache2::AuthCookieDBI - back when I took over maintenance of that module I didn't know how to test it, b

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-15 19:10]: > thus every tarball of every distribution should contain > everything necessary to take over maintainership of a module. It is a reasonable position, really, so long as you don’t stretch it to absurd lengths. If there is something *unusual* invo

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:49:32 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Asking the wrong question. None of our testsuites is there to protect >> against spoof or attacks. That's simply not the goal. Same thing for >> 00-signature.t > We would seem to be agreeing. If

[ANNOUNCE] TAP::Harness::Archive 0.03

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Peters
The uploaded file TAP-Harness-Archive-0.03.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/W/WO/WONKO/TAP-Harness-Archive-0.03.tar.gz size: 5995 bytes md5: 5a92a2ae5b43469229a68146703d The biggest change in this release is the removal of Archive::Builder and Archive::Extract as

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 15 December 2007 01:34:37 Michael G Schwern wrote: > Bt skipped tests don't get run so it's effectively deleted, except a > permanently skipped test sits around cluttering things up.  Smells like > commenting out code that maybe someday you might want to use again in the > future.

Re: Milton Keynes PM coding collaboration

2007-12-15 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Edwardson, Tony wrote: Anyone written any CPAN modules for which the testing coverage needs to be improved ? Oh, yes. Want someone else to sort this out for you ? Yes. Milton Keynes PM want to start working together to contribute to the Perl development effort and a

Re: Parsing TAP into TAP

2007-12-15 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 15 Dec 2007, at 02:05, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-10T11:52:33] On 10 Dec 2007, at 16:49, Ovid wrote: Seems Ricardo Signes likes this idea, too: http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/35076 Who? :) :'( I like this idea so much that if you point me a

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:49:32 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> said: > > We would seem to be agreeing. If the goal of the test suite is not to > protect > > against spoofing, and if it doesn't accomplish that anyway, why put a > > signature