Ian Langworth wrote:
I mentioned YAML with a pretense I failed to mention -- that we
wouldn't parse the YAML. That's already been done, and there are
plenty of parsers.
I agree with this. YAML has been done and done again, in every
language. It works, it's tested. I don't think we need E
I agree that "got" is generally a good word to avoid in formal writing,
but in a testing protocol I think that it's an acceptable abbreviation
for "the actual result". Especially since "received" doesn't quite
convey the right meaning here. Maybe "expected data" and "actual data"
(or "expecte
not ok 2 - omg t3h sooper test!!1!
--- TAP diagnostics
file:foo.t
Why aren't we commenting the YAML block so that it's compatible with
current TAP parsers? I'm thinking something like this:
not ok 2 - ensure that foo is equal to bar
# --- !!tap/diagnostics
# file: foo.t
# line: 4
Great, now the mailing list archives have to be licenced under the GFDL :-)
Ian Langworth wrote:
When the last giant thread happened, I felt guilty for not
contributing. To absolve myself of any future guilt due to the lack of
a contribution to recent conversations, here's some useful informati
Sorry, meant to send this to the list. :)
What’s the point?
Good question. Crypt::OpenPGP doesn't maintain a web-of-trust either.
People that have webs of trust have GPG, otherwise, what are they using?
If all that’s verified is that the distribution was signed with
the key uploaded to
I'd prefer MediaWiki (that which
Wikipedia uses).
I'm working on making Socialtext open source right now. I plan to
put up a wiki based on it very soon.
This sounds like the best idea.
The thing about using MediaWiki is that it's not written in Perl. Not
that PHP is bad (ok, yes it is
Two comments, pretty much agreeing with chromatic and Ricardo:
1) How would this proposed module benefit the perl community? Why
can't you fix things in Test::Harness and send the patch in? If you fix
deployed modules, everyone wins. If you write your own module, it sits
on CPAN unused.
I would say that even if nobody else is interested, if you're
interested, do it :)
That said, I would be interested. I'm still trying to page all the
perl6/parrot grammars (PGE, TGE, etc.) into my brain, so any additional
examples would helpful, interesting, and fun. For me, anyway :)
Rega
