Re: CPANifying our test framework - or parts of it

2016-09-10 Thread Andy Lester
hash => { field structure_id => match qr{^ (? STRUCT \d+ ) $}x; field type => 'dolmen', field material => 'concrete', } } -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Re: Test2::Tools::Compare is vs. like

2016-07-27 Thread Andy Lester
first argument (and in $_) and the sub should return a boolean value.”) would be good, too. I’d be glad to write the docs if I knew the answers to the questions and the zen of what to use when. As a newbie to Test2, I’d really like to start using it as much as possible, but I’m also afraid of screwing up existing tests because I use a new tool incorrectly. Andy -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Test2::Tools::Compare is vs. like

2016-07-27 Thread Andy Lester
docs that explains the differences between the two. Anyone else have troubles with these two functions? Or other gotchas where new features aren’t what people switching from Test::More might expect? Andy -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Re: Writing our own modules in Test2

2016-06-27 Thread Andy Lester
I don’t like the name bool_eq() (“booleans are equal”) but it was the best I could come up with. -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Re: Writing our own modules in Test2

2016-06-24 Thread Andy Lester
t2::Suite. I think that will help future Test2::Tools writers. So those are my high-level thoughts. -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Re: Writing our own modules in Test2

2016-06-24 Thread Andy Lester
rd party module. -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Writing our own modules in Test2

2016-06-23 Thread Andy Lester
er? Do we have an FAQ started for things like this? If not, I assume it would be good to start one, and if so, then where should I start it? -- Andy Lester => www.petdance.com

Re: interest in converting LWP / Mech hierarchy to roles?

2013-02-28 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Mark Stosberg wrote: > I'd like to have a Mechanize that has both the testing functions, and > also JavaScript support, which the WWW::Scripter sub-class has. Seems to me even better would be to fold WWW::Scripter's JS support into Mech itsel

Re: interest in converting LWP / Mech hierarchy to roles?

2013-02-28 Thread Andy Lester
nch of wrappers and some convenience functions. -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Launch of site and sign ups

2013-01-18 Thread Andy Lester
eally seeing your point. There was no point. I wasn't debating. It was a question, asking for information. xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Launch of site and sign ups

2013-01-18 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Mark Keating wrote: > The hackathon site is up, we are looking for sponsors and attendees. What made you put it up at a new domain, rather than qa.perl.org? I was surprised. xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Testing Output and Functionality

2012-04-23 Thread Andy Lester
oking for Test::Output. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Output/ xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
top energy intended. I just wanted to provide a counter viewpoint from a potential customer. I don't want to have another module prereq. I'd probably just do the cut & paste into my t/00-load.t. Carry on! xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
not installed permanently on their system. test_requires is Module::Build only, right? I don't use Module::Build. Even if I did, I don't think I'd require the user to go through a download and temporary build of AutoBailout.pm just to remove boilerplate. xoa -- Andy Lester

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
As a module author, I would not require a user to install AutoBailout.pm just to remove boilerplate in my t/00-load.t But that's just me. xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
::Next::VERSION, Perl $], $^X" ); it sounds like we're saying that the use_ok() doesn't help at all, and I might as well write use App::Ack; use App::Ack::Repository; use App::Ack::Resource; use File::Next; diag( "Testing App::Ack $App::Ack::VERSION, File::Next $File::Next::VERSION, Perl $], $^X" ); Agreed? xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
> -- > ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES! > http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml > I think we've found our correct non-loading module behavior right there. xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
So is there ANY legit use for use_ok()? xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-10 Thread Andy Lester
) ought to die if it fails. But then we might as well not wrap our use in use_ok(). Is there a case when we DO want to use use_ok()? xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Perl QA Hackathon: What was accomplished?

2012-04-06 Thread Andy Lester
On Apr 6, 2012, at 7:46 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > Could someone post a summary of what was done/not done at this year's QA > hackathon in Paris (http://2012.qa-hackathon.org/qa2012)? I've posted a couple of links on @perlbuzz already. xoa -- Andy Lester =>

Re: An --exclude parameter for prove?

2011-10-24 Thread Andy Lester
d, then lets do that, rather than saying to "just" do this workaround. If we always took that approach, then we would never have prove in the first place. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Releasing Test::Harness 3.22

2010-08-10 Thread Andy Lester
they could go live. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

prove --ext=.this --ext=.that

2010-07-19 Thread Andy Lester
ack 2.0. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

SourceHandlers

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Lester
This whole SourceHandler looks much more like the Right Way To Do It. I wish Mr. Armstrong were around for discussion. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Re: prove --ext=@s

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Lester
ing because now we're passing around an array ref. But I'm working on the guts to handle it all. My concern was not about handling command line arguments, but about all the internals, and what I might break that is some sort of defined API that I don't know about. xoa -

Re: prove --ext=@s

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Lester
hat to Andy A. and Steve > P.). I've got a dispatch script that runs either .t under perl or .phpt under PHP. Basically I've been running: prove --exec='/home/alester/smoke/bin/smoke-dispatch' --ext=.t and it's been just fine. It just never gets called

Re: prove --ext=@s

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Lester
27;t want to make this a CYJ. > But then you'll need to write a PHP handler. Brief intro: > > > http://www.justatheory.com/computers/programming/perl/tap-parser-sourcehandler.html And that's fine, I don't mind doing that. I wrote a Test::Harness::PHP for the old 2.x one. But yeah, if this is just a matter of 'ext=s+', then who can make that change and push it out? xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Re: prove --ext=@s

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Lester
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Matt Heusser wrote: > Is there a way to do prove -dont-actualy-execute-anything-just-input --file > pregeneratedTAPinput.txt > > ? > > I just want the summary features. prove --exec=/bin/cat tap.txt -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com =>

prove --ext=@s

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Lester
fold back, but this feature missing makes those I'd convert to prove very sad. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Fwd: CPAN Upload: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-WWW-Mechanize-1.26.tar.gz

2010-04-04 Thread Andy Lester
ong. Now requires Test::LongString 0.12. t/put_ok.t now passes, but with a handful of warnings. Help in figuring out why would be appreciated. [INTERNALS] Hoisted common code out of get_ok, post_ok, etc. [DOCUMENTATION] Updated copyright and licensing information. -- Andy Lester =&

Re: done_testing() and test counts

2009-06-09 Thread Andy Lester
front if done_testing() replaced no_plan or worked with it. xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

done_testing() and test counts

2009-06-09 Thread Andy Lester
Result: FAIL "Looks like you failed 1 test of 2 run". I guess that it's counting done_testing() as a test in itself, but that doesn't seem to be right. Is that intentional? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Fwd: Test::Harness::TAP included in the Softpedia Linux software database

2009-05-22 Thread Andy Lester
- Softpedia - the encyclopedia of free software downloads http://www.softpedia.com/ -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Continuous Integration for Perl

2009-04-21 Thread Andy Lester
to be "no, there's nothing that is general purpose enough for what you want." Maybe something like CruiseControl will do it, I don't know. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Counting tests, vi vs. emacs, and abortion

2009-03-16 Thread Andy Lester
d the two. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Counting tests, vi vs. emacs, and abortion

2009-03-16 Thread Andy Lester
and kisses, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Fwd: Non-Perl TAP

2009-02-24 Thread Andy Lester
ear path to the differing item - Has multiple output modes: YAML, msbuild-friendly, terse - Supports testing of "internal" classes and methods The project home is at http://code.google.com/p/taps-testing. >> Thanks in advance and thanks for your time. -- cheers, Frank van

Re: prove is lying to me

2009-02-19 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: Andy Lester wrote: Second point: Should tests 3 and 6 pass? Being unnumbered? Yes, that's by design (or at least happy historical accident). But "ok 0" should certainly fail, right? xoa -- Andy Lester =>

prove is lying to me

2009-02-19 Thread Andy Lester
ok 9 ok 10 ok 11 The test number is 0, and yet, it passes as well. I ask all of this because we have what should be failing tests in Rakudo that are passing because of what seems to me TAP that should fail. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Let us stop rehashing plans

2009-01-22 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:23 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: people see Perl 6 as an opportunity to rethink things. Except that Perl 6 isn't changing TAP. -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Let us stop rehashing plans

2009-01-22 Thread Andy Lester
exaggerating. The horse is dead. Also, Hitler. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Perl 6 and Test.pm's skip() function

2009-01-22 Thread Andy Lester
ny others do as well. Perhaps I'm being unclear. I do not find either 'no_plan' or 'plan' to be useful in their current state. Yes, but many others do. -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Perl 6 and Test.pm's skip() function

2009-01-22 Thread Andy Lester
ting that many people use and rely on. xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Hooray for the new CPAN Testers

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Lester
The daily email is fantastic. So much easier to read, to see what is good and what isn't, and to ignore what I don't care about (Yes, I know I can turn off specific platforms and distros too) Thanks very much to all of you. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EM

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee

2008-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
e. Oh well. :-/ To you it's the side note. To me, and others, it is the key issue. Flailing attempts at fixing Kwalitee are not worth alienating current and future contributors. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee

2008-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
ests. Again, Salve, please understand that the vast majority of humans do not divorce their feelings from their work, as much as you may see that as a "problem." -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Lester
n seeing his or her module on the list, is going to go and modify the distribution? The chances of that are miniscule * tiny. Most of all, what problem are you trying to solve? I suggest that low- Kwalitee modules on the CPAN pose no problem whatsoever. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Lester
se metrics, please file a bug report.) Oh, come on Eric, I'm proud of TP (which is really brian's) and TPC! /me goes to cry. Tito, hand me a tissue. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Lester
ith someone who is an unpaid volunteer, working on his projects and contributing to the CPAN, and you'll get that horse to walk away and go somewhere else, or just not bother uploading code. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Lester
t a way to encourage volunteers to work on projects. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee (was Re: Tested File-Find-Object-0.1.1 with Class::Accessor not installed)

2008-10-23 Thread Andy Lester
; Really, does anyone think these ideas through? -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Public Humiliation and Kwalitee (was Re: Tested File-Find-Object-0.1.1 with Class::Accessor not installed)

2008-10-23 Thread Andy Lester
.org/highscores/hall_of_shame A beautiful point, sir. I kiss you! -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: s/FAIL/welcome basket/

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
re watching your code, and if you'd like to follow our monitoring of your code, go here, and if you want messages all the time, you can do such-and-such." -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: s/FAIL/welcome basket/

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Sep 5, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: You know, a "hello" that doesn't start with "FAIL!" Yes, beautiful. We need to remember that not everyone is a grizzled veteran. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
ere. What they do need permission to do is send me the mass mail, and fortunately that's what's going to happen. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: What do you want? (was Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:36 PM, David Golden wrote: I will be changing Test::Reporter to stop all author CC'ing which will take effect when/if we convince existing testers to upgrade. Thank you, sir. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
-- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
ch certain criteria or else we will send you mass email about it"? Am I the only one looking at this from the point of view of others? xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: What do you want? (was Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
different opinions? -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
we're not preventing people from uploading anything, but we're punishing them for not bending to the whims of the CPAN Testers ideals. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
There is far too much bile floating in this thread considering that I > believe we all have a shared interest in the quality of our code. That "quality" slider is long and multidirectional. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: What do you want? (was Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality)

2008-09-05 Thread Andy Lester
> I'd hate to lose those in my email because other people don't want to > filter their mail. I'd hate to get spammed because other people don't want to sign up to receive them. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: What do you want? (was Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality)

2008-09-04 Thread Andy Lester
l their friends and they tell their friends, and passing a certain batter of CPAN Testers tests consistently is a badge of honor. I want the Ruby guys go "holy shit, I wish we had something like that." xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-04 Thread Andy Lester
what we're doing and dammit, you should like it!" It is a problem of attitude. Who is serving who? Who is the customer? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-04 Thread Andy Lester
Perl version 5.6.1," we're told how full of shit we are. Why should I release my software on CPAN if part of the price of entry is being spammed and told what I should be doing? Why is the personal side of this being entirely missed? We are not robots here. We are humans. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-04 Thread Andy Lester
saying "I would like it if..." -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The relation between CPAN Testers and quality (or why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it)

2008-09-04 Thread Andy Lester
s job. A fail is something that should be fixed, period, regardless of the number of them. According to who? Who's to say what my job as an author is? -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: I Want to Believe in the CPAN (was Re: cpantesters - why exit(0)?)

2008-09-02 Thread Andy Lester
me as reaching out to the base of users and authors about what CPAN Testers should be, to find out if it's useful. Certainly when I've said I find certain aspects of it unuseful I've been told I was wrong. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: I Want to Believe in the CPAN (was Re: cpantesters - why exit(0)?)

2008-09-02 Thread Andy Lester
modules are the best in that, and these 10 are the worst. THAT would be something. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: I Want to ignore cpan-testers

2008-09-02 Thread Andy Lester
On Sep 2, 2008, at 3:41 PM, David Cantrell wrote: Can the cpan-testers please get a dedicated list that is not perl-qa? It's called [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's great. So can this all be taken over there, please? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>

I Want to ignore cpan-testers

2008-09-02 Thread Andy Lester
Can the cpan-testers please get a dedicated list that is not perl-qa? It's frustrating that so much of the perl-qa traffic is about CPAN Testers, a project that I'm not particularly interested in because they are not at all interested in me. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester

Re: cpantesters - why exit(0)?

2008-09-02 Thread Andy Lester
On Sep 2, 2008, at 2:55 PM, David Cantrell wrote: Helpful hint: there's a difference between getting your name listed on an obscure web page and a reward. A reward would be something like a bar of chocolate, or a pay rise. Depends on who you are. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL P

Re: Test::Harness Output Change

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Ovid wrote: Why? If we want other extensions, stripping them is probably bad. We definitely want other extensions. I have a pending project that relies on running .t and .phpt next to each other. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdan

Re: $builder->start_todo

2008-07-29 Thread Andy Lester
diag. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: $builder->start_todo

2008-07-29 Thread Andy Lester
of my great "I want to use Perl stuff to test my PHP code" push a few years ago. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Drizzle colonization

2008-07-25 Thread Andy Lester
t I've been seeing. Lovely. Let me know if I can help. (I had lunch with Brian Aker today; he wanted some independent review from someone from a very different but similar world.) Review of what? The plan to TAPify it? xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Drizzle colonization

2008-07-25 Thread Andy Lester
then they get diffed. No granularity. I'm going to convert them to emit TAP, so we can use Test::Harness and other standard tools to analyze the results. The colonization continues. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: counting usage, not downloads

2008-07-06 Thread Andy Lester
more interested in human commentary. Counts of who uses a given product puts the Britney Spears as the highest quality musical artist. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: The Definitive CPANTs Summary

2008-07-01 Thread Andy Lester
Note that nowhere in here does the word "user" appear. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-06-30 Thread Andy Lester
on that so that I am prepped for OSCON BOFing on it. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: CPAN Ratings and the problem of choice

2008-06-30 Thread Andy Lester
s have installed the dist (e.g. a hook in the cpan client or a nightly/weekly crawl of @INC.) As an aside, all of this is what we're talking about over on rethinking-cpan. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Andy Lester
d) is more relevant than someone who doesn't? Our little echo chamber is not some hallowed hall that indicates programming wisdom. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Proposed (optional) kwalitee metric; use re 'taint'

2008-06-24 Thread Andy Lester
swell? If CPANTS let us create profiles so we could say "I care about this, I don't care about that." To me, the re 'taint' data point is a pretty cool idea, but that's just 'cause I love taint. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Baffling cluelessness

2008-05-26 Thread Andy Lester
oorly tested logic, essentially stopped development a long time ago because to quote the founder, Ivan Moore, in a comment to me "so few sites are into unit testing enough to care about perfecting their tests." Maybe he can't look beyond Java? xoa -- Andy Lester

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
e, to discuss. http://groups.google.com/group/rethinking-cpan I welcome your thoughts, discussions, and ideas. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
ce-to-cpan.html xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
mately, I think this is where all "how do we make CPAN easier to use" discussions are leading. The focus needs to change from the tactical ("Let's have reviews") to the strategic ("How do we get the proper modules/solutions in the hands of the users that want them.") -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
cpanreviews.shlomi.com could be will help others visualize what you're discussing. $picture == @words[0..999]. I think it's far more useful to talk about these human issues first. The technical answers will fall out of the requirements that get created. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

New assertions in Ruby

2008-02-11 Thread Andy Lester
Some interesting ideas for how the Ruby folks are now doing their unit testing. http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/assert2.html xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

cpan-testers in the inbox

2008-02-11 Thread Andy Lester
http://log.perl.org/2008/02/no-more-email-d.html Well I guess that settles that. :) xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Find all the modules 'use'd in a directory

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Lester
7;baz'; or use Foo::Bar qw( baz quux ); My regex will miss those latter two. Mr. Armstrong's regex is safer. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Find all the modules 'use'd in a directory

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote: ack -h '^use\s+\w+' | perl -pe 's/^use\s+(\w+(?:::\w+)*).*/$1/' | sort -u Great minds think alike, except that you don't need to be doing that Perl stuff. The --output flag for ack is your friend. -- Andy L

Re: Find all the modules 'use'd in a directory

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Lester
-h '^use\s+(\S+);' --output=$1 || sort -u -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Testing on live systems

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Lester
A cautionary tale of why we must be very careful doing tests against live systems. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Ive-Got-The-Monkey-Now.aspx -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: demining

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Lester
My personal favorite... rats! http://www.apopo.org/ No discussion of minesweeping may omit Minesweeper: The Movie. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138 -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Test::Aggregate - Speed up your test suites

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Lester
someone's module is likely to be seen as insulting, if not by the person who you're responding to, then by someone watching thinking "Hmmm, maybe I won't released my work publicly 'cause I don't want someone saying 'yuck' to my work." I apologize

Re: Test::Aggregate - Speed up your test suites

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Lester
. I think this wins the Least Helpful Response To Someone Who Has Provided A New Module For Everyone To Use. Bravo! -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Providing command-line arguments to tests run via 'prove'

2007-11-29 Thread Andy Lester
, and we're still working on making a monolithic prove. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Stateful prove

2007-11-29 Thread Andy Lester
or me. My plan is to record the order in which the tests were most recently run and to be able to use that as the order this time too. That OK? Yes, thank you. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Stateful prove

2007-11-29 Thread Andy Lester
t like the idea of basing it on a given seed. I want to be able to know state about the tests that have run, the order they were in, etc, without having to go through prove to generate the sequence for me. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

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