What tests are failing on VMS?

2001-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
So like I said, either tests are habitually failing on vmsperl, or nobody's compiled Perl on OS/390 in a long time (I wouldn't be surprised if that were true). If there are tests that just fail all the time for you guys, post them up and maybe we can fix them, or at least shut them up. -- Mic

Testing Net::Ping

2001-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
Zach, I saw in the Wiki you're taking a swing at Net::Ping. Barring anything else, I'd saw your first cut should be a bunch of can_ok() tests. Check new(), ping(), close(). Also a can_ok('main', 'pingecho') to make sure pingecho got exported. Then check that new returns an object with isa_ok(

Re: Untested libraries update

2001-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:31:29PM +0200, Tels wrote: > > As insane as it sounds, it might not be there. There might be no IP > > system at all. Consider DOS. > > But isn't there a test for localhost (getbyhostname or something), that > would also run into the problem, e.g. is this solved by Co

Re: Untested libraries update

2001-09-21 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 21-Sep-01 Michael G Schwern tried to scribble about: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:57:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How about testing on 127.0.0.1? > > As insane as it sounds, it might not be there. There might be no IP > system at all. Con

Re: Untested libraries update

2001-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:57:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How about testing on 127.0.0.1? As insane as it sounds, it might not be there. There might be no IP system at all. Consider DOS. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality A

[PATCH @12110] RE: Untested libraries update

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Marquess
From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:37:41PM +0100, Paul Marquess wrote: > > From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Michael G Schwern listed: > > > [...] > > > > warnings::register (almost no docs) > > > > Hmm, would a "see L and

Re: Untested libraries update

2001-09-21 Thread lars
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:35:04PM -0700, Zach Lipton wrote: > > I don't know why this didn't occur to me before, but why not put this in a > > Wiki? > > That's a great idea! And by some shocking coincidence, we just happen > to have a perl-qa W