Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Builder/More/Simple 0.72

2007-09-26 Thread David Golden
On 9/25/07, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, one option might be something like: >http://www.cpanforum.com/tags/name/helpwanted > Gabor, would it be easy to add an Atom/RSS feed for a particular tag? Please no! Let's not spread module metadata around any more than we have to. E

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Builder/More/Simple 0.72

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Dolan
On Sep 22, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Salve J Nilsen wrote: - Set up some kind of syndication feed [RSS, Atom] [somewhere sensible] where one can read which distributions currently have a "pre-release" status. The feed might be called "NEED TESTING" or something like that. Make this feed visible on

Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Graham TerMarsch
[crosspost from the mod_perl mailing list, at recommendation of others on the MP list] Wanted to ping the list about something that's irked me the last few days... After recently releasing Apache2::Filter::Minifier::JavaScript/CSS, I saw several failed CPAN testers reports, generally due to the

Module metadata

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Rockway
David Golden wrote: > On 9/25/07, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, one option might be something like: >>http://www.cpanforum.com/tags/name/helpwanted >> Gabor, would it be easy to add an Atom/RSS feed for a particular tag? >> > > Please no! Let's not spread module met

Re: Module metadata

2007-09-26 Thread David Golden
On 9/26/07, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Golden wrote: > > Please no! Let's not spread module metadata around any more than we have > > to. > > > > Extend META.yml to include the same kind of information that used to > > be managed via the modules list. If someone wants to

Bucardo and Test::Dynamic

2007-09-26 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
I just released Bucardo, a multi-master replication system for Postgres. It has a fairly intense test suite, and I was developing it, I ended up writing Yet Another Test Counter. At some point, I decided to turn it into a proper module. Here's the POD page: http://bucardo.org/test_dynamic/Dynamic.

Re: Bucardo and Test::Dynamic

2007-09-26 Thread Andy Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26 Sep 2007, at 18:51, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: http://bucardo.org/test_dynamic/Dynamic.pm.html Comments and feedback welcome. I was not trying to solve everyone's counting problems, just my own, but offer it in the hopes someone else will find

Re: Perl 5 Wiki Improvement Drive: Recommended Modules For Testing

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Dolan
On Sep 24, 2007, at 4:15 AM, David Cantrell wrote: Andy Lester wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:23:21AM +0100, David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It appears that I can't make any changes without registering for yet another bloody account. I already have too many. You have a limit?

Hiring: automation engineer with performance testing background

2007-09-26 Thread Zaven Boni
Hello list, My team at Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leader in de-duplicating storage systems, is looking for an engineer with solid Perl skills as well as a system performance measurement and tuning background. We are part of the development team which builds the DDOS filesystem, so someone wit

Re: Module metadata

2007-09-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jonathan Rockway wrote: > David Golden wrote: >> On 9/25/07, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Well, one option might be something like: >>>http://www.cpanforum.com/tags/name/helpwanted >>> Gabor, would it be easy to add an Atom/RSS feed for a particular tag? >>> >> Please n

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Graham TerMarsch wrote: > [crosspost from the mod_perl mailing list, at recommendation of others on the > MP list] > > Wanted to ping the list about something that's irked me the last few days... > > After recently releasing Apache2::Filter::Minifier::JavaScript/CSS, I saw > several failed CPAN

Re: Bucardo and Test::Dynamic

2007-09-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > I just released Bucardo, a multi-master replication system for Postgres. > It has a fairly intense test suite, and I was developing it, I ended up > writing Yet Another Test Counter. At some point, I decided to turn it > into a proper module. Here's the POD page: > > h

Re: Hiring: automation engineer with performance testing background

2007-09-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Zaven Boni wrote: > Hello list, > > My team at Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the leader in de-duplicating > storage systems, is looking for an engineer with solid Perl skills as > well as a system performance measurement and tuning background. We are > part of the development team which builds the D

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Graham TerMarsch
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 2:36 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Graham TerMarsch wrote: > > So... to accommodate those who didn't have Module::Build installed, I set > > up a basic Makefile.PL, following the general guidelines from > > Apache::Test. Unfortunately, most testers borked this one to

Re: Module metadata

2007-09-26 Thread David Golden
On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think (I hope) David was balking at the idea of encoding release information > as CPAN forum tags and not so much at the idea of CPAN forum tags themselves > as independent search keywords. The former. David

Re: Module metadata

2007-09-26 Thread David Golden
On 9/26/07, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think (I hope) David was balking at the idea of encoding release > > information > > as CPAN forum tags and not so much at the idea of CPAN forum tags themselves > > as independent

Re: Bucardo and Test::Dynamic

2007-09-26 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 20:16 +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: > I'm guessing it wouldn't work well for heavily data driven tests? It > seems to work by counting the calls to test functions - is that right? That's a big part of it, yes, as well as accounting for subroutines and other loops and codepa

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Graham TerMarsch wrote: > As a dumb alternative... what about explicitly listing M::B as a build > dependency? Would that trigger CPANPLUS into installing it and then > restarting the build? I don't know what CPANPLUS does with build_requires. It'll probably balk about missing CPANPLUS::Dist::

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread David Golden
I don't think Module::Build can be a build_requires. I think it has to be a configure_requires. (Not that support is widespread yet.) David On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham TerMarsch wrote: > > As a dumb alternative... what about explicitly listing M::B as a buil

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Graham TerMarsch
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 3:41 pm, David Golden wrote: > I don't think Module::Build can be a build_requires. I think it has to > be a configure_requires. (Not that support is widespread yet.) > > On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham TerMarsch wrote: > > > As a d

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Graham TerMarsch wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 3:41 pm, David Golden wrote: >> I don't think Module::Build can be a build_requires. I think it has to >> be a configure_requires. (Not that support is widespread yet.) >> >> On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Graham

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Wednesday 26 September 2007 16:40: >Write a Build.PL with a compatibility Makefile.PL and make sure that >Apache::Test is in the MakeMaker PREREQ_PM.  You appear to be doing > that so it should work.  Is it not? Note that the build class is trying to be 'Apache::Test

Re: Bucardo and Test::Dynamic

2007-09-26 Thread Andy Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26 Sep 2007, at 22:51, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 20:16 +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: I'm guessing it wouldn't work well for heavily data driven tests? It seems to work by counting the calls to test functions - is that r

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread Graham TerMarsch
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 4:59 pm, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Michael G Schwern > # on Wednesday 26 September 2007 16:40: > > Write a Build.PL with a compatibility Makefile.PL and make sure that > > Apache::Test is in the MakeMaker PREREQ_PM.  You appear to be doing > > that so it should wor

Re: Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-26 Thread David Golden
On 9/26/07, Graham TerMarsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > configure_requires would be nice, but what supports it at this point? configure_requires is in the META.yml blead spec. CPAN has support for it as of 1.92. Unfortunately, the most common smoke testing setup is YACSmoke, which uses CPANPLU

Re: Module metadata

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Rockway
David Golden wrote: > (Which reminds me to go update my module metadata on CPAN::Reporter > since I've changed license and abstract since I first registered. The > changes are in my META.yml, of course, but I forgot about PAUSE.) > This is a pretty good point and has caused me to change my min