On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:00:17 +, Dave Whipp wrote:
(cross-posting to perl.qa for other perspectives)
> When I look at this, I find myself wanting to separate the control from the
> data. Here's an alternative:
>
> my @input = qw( 4.5 0.0 13.12343 );
> my @output = qw( 4.5 0.0 13.1234
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:32:21AM +1100, Ken Williams wrote:
> So why does CPAN.pm depend on Test::More anyway? It only uses
> it during its 'make test' phase, not during runtime operations.
> And when you can't install modules very easily because you don't
> have CPAN.pm working properly, it's
Hi,
Twice recently, I've just been through the task of upgrading
CPAN.pm from 1.59_54 to 1.63 on a solaris system because
something about MD5 was broken enough that no modules could be
installed. It took a long time to do manually, because of the
dependency on Test::More, which depends on Te
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 01:40 am, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:31:43AM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
Test::Builder->new would remain as a singleton. We'd just provide an
alternate constructor to provide a second object if someone really wants
it.
You know, that
On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 04:22 pm, Nicholas Clark wrote:
[snip]
However, I'd like to be able to cleanly print out my random number seed to
STDERR (or whatever Test::Builder's correct name for this is) if it
believes
that any tests have failed, and I can't see a clean way to do this.
Whe
At 01:31 + 11/12/02, Mark Fowler wrote:
One day (maybe not this rewrite, maybe not the next) I'd like to see you
be able to write layers of tests. That is to say that you have some kind
of Test::Harness like system running actually inside a Test::Builder test
that runs another set of tests an
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> Allison, if you could arrange an official liaison on p6i that could
> direct (in a definitive, buck-stops-here way) authors' efforts w/
> regard to how perl6-specific tests should be written, we would be
> grateful. We seem to have a decent number of people here will
