[csw-maintainers] Updating Perl packages

Mike Watters mwatters at opencsw.org
Mon Mar 23 23:15:15 CET 2009


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William Bonnet wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Actually there are several Perl module packages (a number between "a
> lot" and "so many") to be updated. Most of this belongs to Cory Comand
> or to Alex Moore.
> 
> I volunteer to update all the packages which are currently in GAR, but i
> am not a user of this module, not even a perl user... So i would need
> some help, espcially, i would need some advice on "how to test that what
> i did work". Could some one give me some advices about what i should
> check for these packages ?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> cheers
> 


overall, I have found the make test to be between 80 and 90% effective.  if there are no tests for a specific module,
you could release to testing and I am sure we have enough Perl between all the maintainers that
we can bang out some test cases for it.


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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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