Re: [perl #15479] perl 5.8.0 segfault

2002-07-31 Thread Robert Spier
>> And where did the p5p FAQ get to? >MJD said he was taking it off his website... or do you mean the serious one? Do you mean this? http://simon-cozens.org/writings/p5p-faq If someone wants to become a new champion for it, we can keep it on http://dev.perl.org/perl5. (Another way to enable th

Re: Help spreading Test

2002-07-31 Thread David Wheeler
On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 10:15 PM, Johan Vromans wrote: > My hesitation in doing this is that the module does not need Test::* > for its operation, just for the IVP. Given what the Test::* modules are for, I think that this is common. And since they're small and won't waste much in the

Re: Help spreading Test

2002-07-31 Thread Johan Vromans
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's probably easier to just make it a normal prerequisite. My hesitation in doing this is that the module does not need Test::* for its operation, just for the IVP. But I tend to agree that making any special provisions for this purpose is proba

Slides from OSCON

2002-07-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
Figured folks might be interested in slides from talks at OSCON: http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/talks/How_To_Be_Lazy_Redux/ http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/talks/Test_Tutorial/ http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/talks/Writing_A_Test_Library/ -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.po

Re: Help spreading Test

2002-07-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:55:38AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > > One of the problems I have with using Test::Builder is that I want to > > distribute packages to systems that do not (necessarily) have a decent version > > of Test::* installed. Now it is easy to include a copy of a suitable version >

Re: [PATCH Test::Builder] Add diagnostic messages to details

2002-07-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:44:03AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > This patch captures messages sent through diag() and stores them in the > diagnostic array. Now all of the information the tests generate is available > for later inspection. Dude, where's my patch? -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL

Re: [perl #15479] perl 5.8.0 segfault

2002-07-31 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 04:30:12 -0700, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:20:25PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >> Wasn't there a .t file to run separate perl interpreters and test for core >> dumps ? > I keep forgetting that I need to remember to ask this. Is there a FAQ fo

RFC: Test::ManyParams

2002-07-31 Thread Janek Schleicher
Hello! I'm writing in nearly every Perl test script a method all_ok, all_dies_ok or all_throws_ok new. That's why I want to write a module specialled in testing one feature for many parameters. As I'm very interested in your opinion about, I'll describe some planned features in the following.

Re: [PATCH Test::Builder] Add diagnostic messages to details

2002-07-31 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 12:39, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > This patch captures messages sent through diag() and stores them in the > > diagnostic array. Now all of the information the tests generate is > > available for later inspection. > Dude, where's my patch? Did I completely miss it?

Re: [perl #15479] perl 5.8.0 segfault

2002-07-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:20:25PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Wasn't there a .t file to run separate perl interpreters > and test for core dumps ? I keep forgetting that I need to remember to ask this. Is there a FAQ for regression test writing? Well, an guide to "so I want to write a