[VPM] Testing module alert

Darren Duncan darren at DarrenDuncan.net
Wed Mar 12 17:36:23 PDT 2008


At 5:28 PM -0700 3/12/08, Peter Scott wrote:
>I just discovered problems with the very new Test::Tester module and
>the quite new Test::Builder module in the Test::Simple
>distribution.  The check_test() function does not work right in
>Test::Tester any more (don't know why it passed its tests) and this
>causes, for instance, Test::Output to fail its tests (horribly).  Quite
>probably many other modules would be affected, albeit only in their tests.
>
>I have alerted the module authors and rolled back using the following
>CPAN shell commands:
>
>   install M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.74.tar.gz
>   install F/FD/FDALY/Test-Tester-0.106.tar.gz
>
>I suggest waiting for a version of Test::Tester with a version number >
>0.107 and a version of Test::Simple with a version number > 0.79_01.

Is Victoria.pm the mailing list that you intended to contact with 
that post, in contrast to a more general CPAN list?

In any event, I've always been using Test::More for my own modules, 
which is bundled with Perl, and it is plenty simple enough.

-- Darren Duncan


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