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Re: perl-30145 (was Re: Future Perl development)

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 15, 2007 15:40
Subject:
Re: perl-30145 (was Re: Future Perl development)
Message ID:
20070215234014.GF5748@plum.flirble.org
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:31:52PM +0100, Gerard Goossen wrote:

Thanks for testing these. Sorry for the delay in responding.

> DateTime-0.27
> t/20infinite............
> #   Failed test 'infinity (datetime) == infinity (number)'
> #   in t/20infinite.t at line 72.
> #          got: '-0001--01--01T-01:-01:-01'
> #     expected: 'inf'
> 
> #   Failed test 'neg infinity (datetime) == neg infinity (number)'
> #   in t/20infinite.t at line 75.
> #          got:
> #          '-9223372036854775808--9223372036854775808--9223372036854775808T-9223372036854775808:-9223372036854775808:-9223372036854775808'
> #     expected: '-inf'
> # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 40.
> Upgrading to DateTime resolved this

I see the same error with DateTime-0.27 and perl 5.8.8, so it seems to be a
bug in the tests of that version of DateTime. Like you, I see all tests
passing on the current version

> Module where upgrading did not help:
> Date-Formatter-0.07
> t/20_Date_Formatter_overloads_test........Illegal Operation : Cannot add
> a date object to a non-date object. at
> /oldroot/home/gerard/perl/tweed/perlkit/tmp/Date-Formatter-0.07/blib/lib/Date/Formatter.pm
> line 446.
> 
> Date-Formatter-0.08
> t/20_Date_Formatter_overloads_test........Illegal Operation : Cannot add
> a date object to a non-date object. at
> /oldroot/home/gerard/perl/tweed/perlkit/tmp/Date-Formatter-0.08/blib/lib/Date/Formatter.pm
> line 473.

I see this failure on release 5.8.8, so the module's tests (or the module) is
buggy in some way.

> Serious problem:
> ImageMagick-6.3.2-0 sometimes a segmentation fault (something
> inside a XS_Image__Magick_DESTROY). I'll try to get some more debug
> information.

If you can, that would be useful.

> Used to run it as the perl for a test setup 2dehands.nl (replacing perl
> 5.8.6).
> And run all our tests, a lot of mod-perl, DBD-mysql, 
> sockets stuff, UTF8 flags, lots of utility modules, some
> horrible/fantastic magic like blessed tied hashes.

And you don't say that it breaks, which I take is good news.
Testing your non-CPAN code is the most useful, because it's more likely to
throw up unique problems. Thanks.

Nicholas Clark

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