Re: Foreign modules in test scripts?

2005-02-21 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
David Cantrell wrote: The practice of bundling third-party modules with yours is IMO very wrong indeed. If I bundle (eg) Test::Frobnitz, and a hundred other people bundle Test::Frobnitz, then this leads to two problems: Agreed. See the earlier advice about the inc/ directory so you can bundle,

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Adam Turoff wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0400, Barrie Slaymaker wrote: > > Adam Turoff wrote: > > > > Feedback welcome. > > > > > > I noticed that CVS reports this as part of the version logs: > > > > > > date: 200

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Adam Turoff wrote: > > > Feedback welcome. > > I noticed that CVS reports this as part of the version logs: > > date: 2000/09/13 05:49:30; author: cvs; state: Exp; lines: +19 -19 Yup: not sure how to orchestrate logging in to the server as different usernames, or su'ing to be different user

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
I wrote: > > Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > > > > > I see no reason why the perforce changes cannot be 'checked in' to CVS > > one-by-one so that CVS builds its own representation of the change history. > > I've got this working now in a program called 'vcp', I need to test > p4->cvs updates using

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > > I see no reason why the perforce changes cannot be 'checked in' to CVS > one-by-one so that CVS builds its own representation of the change history. I've got this working now in a program called 'vcp', I need to test p4->cvs updates using the perl5 repository next

Re: "Try? There is no try." -- Yoda's Exception handling syntax

2000-08-16 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
[perl6-annonce list snipped from Cc:, didn't even notice it the first time] "Brust, Corwin" wrote: > > Let me see If I have it... > > try {...} is synonmous with eval {...} which is syntatic sugar for { ... } Hmmm, I think I'd put it this way: if there's a catch or cleanup statement (however t

Re: "Try? There is no try." -- Yoda's Exception handling syntax

2000-08-16 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It basically allows the programmer to "try" a certain action and see what the > effects are going to be (i.e. handle the exception) so that some action can > then be taken based on the results of the exception. Seems like any BLOCK could be an implicit eval {...} or