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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 06:54:13PM -0800, James E Keenan via RT wrote: > On Thu Feb 07 20:10:39 2013, demerphq wrote: > > This is a bug report for perl from demerphq@gmail.com, > > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.4. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > [Please describe your issue here] > > > > Perl diag is missing many entries, which are in turn TODO tests > > in t/porting/diag.t > > > > This is a task that could be handled by someone without C skills. > > > > Note this bug is about *blead* perl, the below status is from my > > system perl. > > > > I glanced at this ticket tonight and soon saw one problem in tackling it. > > When I run t/porting/diag.t, I get this output in the section for file gv.c: > > ########## > not ok 127 - Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s" (perhaps > you forgot to load "%s"?) # TODO in DATA ... > > This suggests that a certain portion of the diagnostics marked as TODO > in t/porting/diag.t have, in fact, been done. How should we proceed? Perhaps add another section in DATA for diagnostics known to be covered, but not detected as covered. Entries would preferably include a comment about how they're covered. Your example is a good case where it would be difficult or confusing to update the documentation to include both the base and the extended message. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next