Re: IETF - Let's Get Started

2008-10-08 Thread Gaurav Vaidya
Hi everybody, 2008/10/8 Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We understand what a lot of basic issues are, so let's get some traction on this. As the next thing we need is a group charter (if we already have one, and I just haven't noticed, ignore this e-mail), I've copied the charter format from RFC 2418

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Ovid
--- On Wed, 8/10/08, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way for a test suite to use the preferred database of a tester? Something like a TEST_DATABASE_DSN, TEST_DATABASE_USERNAME, TEST_DATABASE_PASSWORD triplet that CPAN testers could set to enable testing on

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:34:52AM -0700, Ovid wrote: A colleague of mine is working on a very interesting module, but even though he could release a test suite relying on sqlite, I thought it would be better to use any configured database that was available on the tester's system.

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:56:27AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Is there any way for a test suite to use the preferred database of a tester? Something like a TEST_DATABASE_DSN, TEST_DATABASE_USERNAME, TEST_DATABASE_PASSWORD triplet that CPAN testers could set to enable testing on

IETF - Let's Get Started

2008-10-08 Thread Ovid
I'm a bit disappointed that after all of our effort to get the TAP IETF process started, we have let it languish. I'd like to restart this effort. We understand what a lot of basic issues are, so let's get some traction on this. Background links: Initial proposal discussion:

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:17:16PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:56:27AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Is there any way for a test suite to use the preferred database of a tester? Something like a TEST_DATABASE_DSN, TEST_DATABASE_USERNAME,

Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Hi, Is there any way for a test suite to use the preferred database of a tester? Something like a TEST_DATABASE_DSN, TEST_DATABASE_USERNAME, TEST_DATABASE_PASSWORD triplet that CPAN testers could set to enable testing on different databases? A colleague of mine is working on a very interesting

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
It should be fairly easy for willing CPAN testers to setup any database they like, and provide some connection information for throwaway tables and data (assuming the test script WILL probably drop all tables in there and dump its own crap there). This seems of dubious usefulness, as the

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:17:31AM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: It should be fairly easy for willing CPAN testers to setup any database they like, and provide some connection information for throwaway tables and data (assuming the test script WILL probably drop all tables in there

Re: Generic test database

2008-10-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: It should be fairly easy for willing CPAN testers to setup any database they like, and provide some connection information for throwaway tables and data (assuming the test script WILL probably drop all tables in there and dump its own crap there). This seems of