Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-02 Thread Andy Lester
When are we gonna put 2.99x up? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-02 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andy Lester # on Sunday 02 September 2007 08:53 pm: >When are we gonna put 2.99x up? I dunno. Are we waiting on t/compat/010-failure.t to be done? Seems to work now. And TH_TODO still has these (non-Wishlist) bugs listed as open. - [ ] 8767[PATCH] Test::Harness fails to install wh

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Andy Lester > # on Sunday 02 September 2007 08:53 pm: > >> When are we gonna put 2.99x up? > > I dunno. Are we waiting on t/compat/010-failure.t to be done? Seems to > work now. > > And TH_TODO still has these (non-Wishlist) bugs listed as open. > > - [ ] 8767

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Monday 03 September 2007 12:30 am: >Are these existing bugs in Test::Harness?  If so then you're at "no > worse then what's already there" status and should make a release. Probably. >Alphas:  Release early, release often.  The whole point is to get > people to bang

RE: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Gergely Brautigam
2007 10:16 AM To: perl-qa@perl.org Subject: Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again # from Michael G Schwern # on Monday 03 September 2007 12:30 am: >Are these existing bugs in Test::Harness?  If so then you're at "no >worse then what's already there" status and should make a re

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 9/3/07, Gergely Brautigam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry as a beginner on this list.. Can I ask in what these modules are > written? These modules are in Perl aren't they? Are there any written in c++? > Like Win32 modules? Why not look at their source code? You can find the modules a

RE: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Gergely Brautigam
: Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again On 9/3/07, Gergely Brautigam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry as a beginner on this list.. Can I ask in what these modules are written? These modules are in Perl aren't they? Are there any written in c++? Like Win32 modules? Why not look a

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Gergely Brautigam wrote: > I'm sorry as a beginner on this list.. Can I ask in what these modules are > written? These modules are in Perl aren't they? Are there any written in c++? > Like Win32 modules? Yes, they're written in Perl. Yes, it will run on Windows. The nice part about TAP::Parser

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Ovid
--- Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are these existing bugs in Test::Harness? If so then you're at "no > > worse then what's already there" status and should make a release. > > Probably. Agreed. > >Alphas: Release early, release often. The whole point is to get > > people to ban

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ovid wrote: > Andy (Armstrong), aside from the fact that we now know that it fails > miserably on VMS, do you know of any show stoppers or potential > embarrassments? > > (The only reason I mention "potential embarrassments" is that CPANPLUS > and Module::Build have left such a bad taste in many p

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Ovid
--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How > > ironic. It's a silly concern, I know :) > > Wringing your hands > over perception issues defeats the point. Did you see the bit where I wrote "It's a silly concern"? I *know* this. > And folks don't beat on CPANPLUS and Module::Build

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 Sep 2007, at 09:49, Ovid wrote: Andy (Armstrong), aside from the fact that we now know that it fails miserably on VMS, do you know of any show stoppers or potential embarrassments? I'm just trying to reproduce a problem I had at YAPC. I installed POE via cpan with T::H 2.99 installed and

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ovid wrote: > --- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How >>> ironic. It's a silly concern, I know :) >> Wringing your hands >> over perception issues defeats the point. > > Did you see the bit where I wrote "It's a silly concern"? I *know* > this. I know. You just need an ass k

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 Sep 2007, at 10:23, Andy Armstrong wrote: I'm just trying to reproduce a problem I had at YAPC. I installed POE via cpan with T::H 2.99 installed and although the tests all seemed to have passed it tried to send a failure mail via CPAN::Reporter. Assuming I can either fix that quickly or it

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 Sep 2007, at 10:47, Andy Armstrong wrote: We do seem to have a problem. This is valid, right? 1..0 # most of these should move into other test files OK - I see that it's not valid without SKIP after the # - but I guess its presence in POE's tests means that TH 2.64 doesn't choke on it.

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 Sep 2007, at 10:55, Andy Armstrong wrote: OK - I see that it's not valid without SKIP after the # - but I guess its presence in POE's tests means that TH 2.64 doesn't choke on it. What to do? What to do: I've fixed the POE tests and mailed Chris Williams. It's not our problem. Anyon

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Sep 2007, at 20:19, Abe Timmerman wrote: Andy (Armstrong), aside from the fact that we now know that it fails miserably on VMS, do you know of any show stoppers or potential embarrassments? s!fails miserably!does not work at all! Any platform

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread James E Keenan
Eric Wilhelm wrote: Last week was me spending way too much time programming with two hands behind my back to get 5.5.3 compatibility, bundling Test::More, creating IO::Capture, etc. In this package's POD, it would probably be good to distinguish this package from the IO::Capture distribu

Re: Test::Harness 2.99 again

2007-09-03 Thread Abe Timmerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ovid wrote: > > Andy (Armstrong), aside from the fact that we now know that it fails > miserably on VMS, do you know of any show stoppers or potential > embarrassments? s!fails miserably!does not work at all! Any platform without $Config{d_fork} wi