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From:
ilmari
Date:
October 7, 2012 15:15
Subject:
Re: a2p/s2p
Message ID:
d8j626mhqtw.fsf@dalvik.ping.uio.no
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 05:47:15PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote:
>
>> I have been wondering much the same thing as I have been looking over 
>> pod2html in recent months.
>> 
>> I think they belong on CPAN, not in the core distribution -- even on a 
>> "dual-life" basis.  But before we move these to CPAN-only, we need to 
>> deal with reported bugs and to recruit a CPAN maintainer.
>
> A test suite would be useful. Whilst rumours exist in various places on
> the Internet of awk test suites, I've not actually found one, let alone
> one with a suitable licence.
>
> (Heck, actually GPL-only would just about be OK for a test suite, as it's
> not being linked into anything. So maybe there is hope.)

In that case, the GNU sed and awk test suites might be worth looking at:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/test
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/tree/testsuite

> Getting awk and sed testsuites would be useful.
>
> Nicholas Clark
>

-- 
ilmari
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 at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen


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