Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:30:22 -0400 From: "jerry gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:35:01 -0700 . . . Parrot::Distribution offers a number of subroutines which allow one to specify which subset of parrot f

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 28 July 2007 15:00:18 James E Keenan wrote: > So, in principle, we can and should reduce the number of tests in 'make > test' and hence reduce its running time.  But that requires *all* of us > -- not just ptc and me -- to be more diligent about running the > specialized testing target

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:00:18 -0400 . . . So, in principle, we can and should reduce the number of tests in 'make test' and hence reduce its running time. But that requires *all* of us -- not just ptc and me -- to be more diligent ab

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread James E Keenan
Paul Cochrane wrote: As a short term improvement of the situtation, how would a "make test-cage" target sound? This would be the same as "make test" but with the coding standards (and any other cage-cleanliness-checking tests) shifted into this suite, and not run by default with "make test".

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "jerry gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:35:01 -0700 On 7/28/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [sorry; forgot to attach the attachment.] > As a step in that direction, is there an easy way to find out which > coding standards tests should be applied

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "jerry gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:35:01 -0700 On 7/28/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a step in that direction, is there an easy way to find out which > coding standards tests should be applied to a given source file? Some > have "c_

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread jerry gay
On 7/28/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Paul Cochrane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:39:09 +0200 > >. . . > >A longer term strategy would be to check for recently changed files >(since the developer's last "svn up") and to run the coding standa

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Paul Cochrane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:39:09 +0200 . . . A longer term strategy would be to check for recently changed files (since the developer's last "svn up") and to run the coding standards tests only over those files . . . Paul As a step i

Re: One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-28 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 28/07/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me preface this by saying that I know that our static analysis tests > represent a tremendous amount of work by several people (especially Paul, > with an enormous amount of respect to everyone who's contributed also to > Perl::Critic and PPI)

One Data Point on the Static Analysis Tests

2007-07-27 Thread chromatic
Let me preface this by saying that I know that our static analysis tests represent a tremendous amount of work by several people (especially Paul, with an enormous amount of respect to everyone who's contributed also to Perl::Critic and PPI), and that they have helped us reach and do help us ma