On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:39:59AM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > If we start with everything broken and try to gradually fix it, we're > going to have little errors here and there for a long time.
AFAIK there is only one module of consequence which does screen scraping on Test::More and that's Test::Builder::Tester (Test::Warn, it turns out, fails because of Test::Builder::Tester). Fix that, upload a new version and the problem goes away. > If we can back the change out for 6 months or so, there's time to get > all the potential scrapers audited for problems As far as I'm concerned scrapers already have a problem: They're scraping, they're relying on it and they didn't think to check against the alphas. I'm not particularly inclined to back out three months of Test::More fixes and hold up new releases until next spring to accomodate them. > At the present time you cannot install anything of consequence onto a > fresh Perl install. Of course you can, it comes with Test::More! 5.8.7 comes with 0.54 which is just two releases ago. You'd be hard pressed to find anything which relies on anything newer. Test::Builder::Tester wants Test::Builder 0.12 which is rather old. The fact that you're the first person to report this problem, two weeks after Test::More was released, that its not nearly as widespread as you think. I'm done talking about this until I see some attempt at fixing Test::Builder::Tester. It could have been done by now. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Stabbing you in the face so you don't have to.
