Removing CPAN's dependency on Test::More

2002-11-12 Thread Ken Williams
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

Re: Eliminating the core-test BEGIN block (was Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting])

2002-09-02 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 03:10 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:26:01AM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: >>>> Thus is you need to be in t this might suit >>>> >>>> cd t; perl -Mblib=lib foo/bar.t >> >> I'd be h

Re: Eliminating the core-test BEGIN block (was Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting])

2002-09-02 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 08:56 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:13:06AM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> I understand all that. My point was that while test itself may care >> where it is run, blib.pm does not mind as much. Also blib.pm's job >> is to make runn

Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting]

2002-08-30 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 05:53 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > For information, my example was from the top of t/integer.t in Storable > It looks like the same bit of code was cargo-cult cut & pasted (er, by > me I think) from the other Storable tests (such as freeze.t) where they > have to

Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting]

2002-08-30 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 06:25 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:23:26PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: >> I admit that I was a little surprised to see 'lib' stuff here >> and not 'blib' stuff. Don't blibs get crea

Re: [ken@mathforum.org: Re: [Inline 0.43] insecure dependency when tainting]

2002-08-29 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 05:29 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > There's already the beginnings of something like this in > t/TestInit.pm, but > it wasn't updated for the PERL_CORE trick. Nor do I know if it can be > entirely trusted. > > Also, Nick's example is a little odd. You usually

Re: Supressing "make test" jibber-jabber

2001-10-02 Thread Ken Williams
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:21:17PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> >> > Any particularly good reason we're showing all that "PERL_DL_NONLAZY" >> > noise as part of "make test"? What about just: >> >> I d

Re: Supressing "make test" jibber-jabber

2001-10-02 Thread Ken Williams
Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> Any particularly good reason we're showing all that "PERL_DL_NONLAZY" >> noise as part of "make test"? What about just: > > I do some weird stuff with that piece to pass data around to my tests. > Sometim

Re: CPAN Test Data

2001-05-17 Thread Ken Williams
ownloaded and tested without some additional manual system configuration, because these may well fail in a rapid-fire smoke test. This includes modules like GD.pm (requires several external libraries) or HTML::Mason (has interactive 'make test'). ---