Re: post-install testing

2011-04-13 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Ovid wrote: > 3. Possible cooperation from the CPAN, CPANPLUS, CPANM and other maintainers > (see point 1). >From the CPAN client's point of view, installing means executing either «make install» or «./Build install». The actual installing is done by ExtUtils::Ins

Re: post-install testing

2011-04-13 Thread Marcel Grünauer
On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Jozef Kutej wrote: > On 2011-04-13 06:40, Ovid wrote: >> If you're talking about rerunning the package tests on a module after it's >> been >> installed, I had been working on the idea of installing tests along with the >> code. This would require a few things: >>

Re: post-install testing

2011-04-13 Thread Jozef Kutej
On 2011-04-13 06:40, Ovid wrote: > If you're talking about rerunning the package tests on a module after it's > been > installed, I had been working on the idea of installing tests along with the > code. This would require a few things: > > 1. A place to install the tests. > 2. A way to save th

Re: post-install testing

2011-04-13 Thread Jozef Kutej
On 2011-04-13 01:00, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Are you talking about integrity testing, making sure the system still has all > their pieces and they still work? Or runtime testing, essentially a > combination of asserts and logging which run from inside the code to check > that the system is inte

Re: post-install testing

2011-04-12 Thread Ovid
o: perl-qa@perl.org > Sent: Tue, 12 April, 2011 17:50:57 > Subject: post-install testing > > Hi, > > It turned out that there is quite a lot that can go wrong. > > Found this gem in our internal wiki. :-) > > My question is regarding the post-install testing. Normal

Re: post-install testing

2011-04-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2011.4.13 1:50 AM, Jozef Kutej wrote: > It turned out that there is quite a lot that can go wrong. > > Found this gem in our internal wiki. :-) > > My question is regarding the post-install testing. Normally the test are run > before installation and then discarded with a

post-install testing

2011-04-12 Thread Jozef Kutej
Hi, It turned out that there is quite a lot that can go wrong. Found this gem in our internal wiki. :-) My question is regarding the post-install testing. Normally the test are run before installation and then discarded with all the rest of the distribution files. But what possibilities do we