Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 18:57: >Ovid wrote: >> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What >> have I missed? >> >> http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37463 > >My stock thinking is that because it follows the xUnit pattern that's > most famili

Re: CPAN Testers remailer program available

2008-09-16 Thread David Golden
To make life a bit easier with dependencies, I've packaged the remailer in its own distribution (and fixed a bug or two already). App::CPAN::Testers::Remailer Usage: $ cpantest-remailer --author=DAGOLDEN --grade=FAIL --grade=UNKNOWN -- David On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM, David Golden <[E

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ovid wrote: > PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I > missed? > > http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37463 My stock thinking is that because it follows the xUnit pattern that's most familiar to most non-Perl programmers. It's the first thing they stumble on

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:13:38 Nicholas Clark wrote: > So everyone gainfully employed because they know what they are doing is > automatically disqualified? Ah yes, the Wikipedia Fallacy of Collective Alethiology. -- c

CPAN Testers remailer program available

2008-09-16 Thread David Golden
I've just released POE::Component::Client::NNTP::Tail to CPAN. In the examples directory, see the "remailer.pl" program. It will follow the NNTP perl.cpan.testers group, pick out an author's distributions and remail certain grades directly to the author. E.g: $ perl remailer.pl --author=DAGOL

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Shawn Boyette ☠
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Josh Heumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I >> missed? > > I can't answer your question directly, but in looking at the questions > you link to, something strikes me as odd: there are at l

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shawn Boyette ☠ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-16 13:30]: > I wondered this myself. My guess is (1) they're dissociated > from what I think of as "the Perl community" (which is why i > tried to stress it in my post on stackoverflow) and (2) google > for "perl unit testing". Yes. There are lots and

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-16 13:25]: > You need a +15 modifier of nothingbettertodoism to vote. Thankfully, it is very, *very* easy to rack up those points: getting one of your posts upvoted gives you 10 points. So it’s just a minimal barrier so you can’t register a horde of smur

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Ovid
--- On Tue, 16/9/08, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think they limit votes the way PM does I only have 9 votes left today :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So everyone gainfully employed because they know what they are doing is > automatically disqualified? I don't think they limit votes the way PM does, and it only takes two upvotes to get qualified to vote up, so we just n

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:23:16AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Josh Heumann > # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 02:37: > > >Shouldn't the people who post more-or-less agreeing solutions vote > > each other's solution up? > > Yes. Now try to do it ;-) > > You need a +15 modifier of nothingb

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Shawn Boyette ☠
I wondered this myself. My guess is (1) they're dissociated from what I think of as "the Perl community" (which is why i tried to stress it in my post on stackoverflow) and (2) google for "perl unit testing". I agree that it's an unhappy state of affairs, but probably not an uncommon one, and almo

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Josh Heumann # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 02:37: >Shouldn't the people who post more-or-less agreeing solutions vote > each other's solution up? Yes. Now try to do it ;-) You need a +15 modifier of nothingbettertodoism to vote. --Eric -- "Because understanding simplicity is complicat

Re: PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Josh Heumann
> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I > missed? I can't answer your question directly, but in looking at the questions you link to, something strikes me as odd: there are at least six posts by people recommending TAP-friendly solutions, and only two mention

PerlUnit

2008-09-16 Thread Ovid
PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What have I missed? http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37463 Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitt