Stories for 2007-10-17

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * The Future of Test::Harness::Straps
    * New CPAN Distributions for October 16, 2007

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| The Future of Test::Harness::Straps                                |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Tuesday October 16, @13:42 (Tools)      |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1723249              |
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One of the implications of the work on [0]Test::Harness 3.0 is that
[1]Test::Harness::Straps will no longer exist as part of Test::Harness.
For new applications you are encouraged to use TAP::Harness /
TAP::Parser. The awkwardness of Straps was one of the reasons to embark
on a rewrite of Test::Harness and the new code should make it far easier
to write ad-hoc testing applications.

That leaves the question of what should happen to Straps. As Schwern
[2]points out it will still work once you have installed Test::Harness
3.0 - but it would be orphaned: installed but unmaintained with no
updates available. The solution might be to make an independent release
of Test::Harness::Straps. There's a slight danger then that people would
continue to use it for new code but the documentation would carry
warnings about the inadvisability of that - and ultimately if someone
finds it useful, why not?

Let me know what you think.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/16/1723249

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/Test-Harness-2.99_04/
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Test-Harness-2.64/lib/Test/Harness/Straps.pm
    2. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09192.html


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| New CPAN Distributions for October 16, 2007                        |
|   posted by pudge on Tuesday October 16, @18:30 (Module Listings)  |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1530207              |
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  * [0]Apache2-Filter-Minifier-CSS-1.04_01 -- CSS minifying output filter
  * [1]Apache2-Filter-Minifier-JavaScript-1.04_01 -- JS minifying output
    filter
  * [2]AuthCAS-1.3.1 -- Client library for CAS 2.0 authentication server
  * [3]CPAN-Mini-0.563 -- create a minimal mirror of CPAN
  * [4]CSS-Minifier-XS-0.01_01 -- XS based CSS minifier
  * [5]CSS-Minifier-XS-0.01_02 -- XS based CSS minifier
  * [6]Cache-FastMmap-1.21 -- Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared
    memory interprocess cache
  * [7]Catalyst-View-Mason-0.15 -- Mason View Class
  * [8]Config-General-2.35 -- Generic Config Module
  * [9]DBI-1.59_90 -- Database independent interface for Perl
  * [10]DBIx-Perlish-0.30 -- a perlish interface to SQL databases
  * [11]Data-Validate-URI-0.02 -- common url validation methods
  * [12]Decision-ParseTree-0.01 -- Replacing waterfall IF-ELSIF-ELSE
    blocks
  * [13]Games-Hack-Patch-i686-0.1 -- How to patch code sequences on i686
  * [14]HTML-RobotsMETA-0.00001 -- Parse HTML For Robots Exclusion META
    Markup
  * [15]Iterator-BreakOn-0.4 -- Iterator with control flow breaks
  * [16]JavaScript-Minifier-XS-0.01_01 -- XS based JavaScript minifier
  * [17]JavaScript-Minifier-XS-0.01_02 -- XS based JavaScript minifier
  * [18]POE-Component-MDBA-0.01003 -- Multi-Database Aggregation with POE
  * [19]Parallel-Iterator-0.8.0 -- Simple parallel execution
  * [20]Parse-Marpa-0.001_015 -- Earley's Algorithm, with improvements
  * [21]Regex-Number-GtLt-0.1 -- generate regex for numbers larger,
    smaller or between one or two given numbers.
  * [22]Rose-HTML-Objects-0.550 -- Object-oriented interfaces for HTML.
  * [23]SQL-Script-0.04 -- An object representing a series of SQL
    statements, normally stored in a file
  * [24]SVN-Class-0.02 -- manipulate Subversion workspaces with Perl
    objects
  * [25]SVN-Class-0.03 -- manipulate Subversion workspaces with Perl
    objects
  * [26]Test-Harness-Straps-0.27 -- detailed analysis of test results
  * [27]Test-Simple-0.73_01 -- Basic utilities for writing tests.
  * [28]VFSsimple-0.03
  * [29]VFSsimple-Drv-File-0.03 -- A VFSsimple implementation over real
    fs
  * [30]VFSsimple-Drv-Ftp-0.03 -- A VFSsimple implementation over ftp
    protocol
  * [31]VFSsimple-Drv-Http-0.03 -- A VFSsimple implementation over http
    protocol
  * [32]VFSsimple-Drv-Iso-0.03 -- A VFSsimple implementation over ISO9660
    fs
  * [33]VFSsimple-Drv-Rsync-0.03 -- A VFSsimple implementation over rsync
    protocol
  * [34]WWW-Anonymouse-0.02 -- interface to Anonymouse.org Email and News
    posting
  * [35]WebService-Google-Reader-0.03 -- Perl interface to Google Reader
  * [36]Win32API-File-Time-0.006 -- Set file times, even on open or
    readonly files.
  * [37]Wx-0.78 -- interface to the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI toolkit
  * [38]ack-1.68 -- grep-like text finder

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/16/1530207

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~gtermars/Apache2-Filter-Minifier-CSS-1.04_01
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~gtermars/Apache2-Filter-Minifier-JavaScript-1.04_01
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~osalaun/AuthCAS-1.3.1
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/CPAN-Mini-0.563
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~gtermars/CSS-Minifier-XS-0.01_01
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~gtermars/CSS-Minifier-XS-0.01_02
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~robm/Cache-FastMmap-1.21
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Catalyst-View-Mason-0.15
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~tlinden/Config-General-2.35
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.59_90
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~gruber/DBIx-Perlish-0.30
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~sonnen/Data-Validate-URI-0.02
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~notbenh/Decision-ParseTree-0.01
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~pmarek/Games-Hack-Patch-i686-0.1
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/HTML-RobotsMETA-0.00001
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~vmoral/Iterator-BreakOn-0.4
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~gtermars/JavaScript-Minifier-XS-0.01_01
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~gtermars/JavaScript-Minifier-XS-0.01_02
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/POE-Component-MDBA-0.01003
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/Parallel-Iterator-0.8.0
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~jkegl/Parse-Marpa-0.001_015
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~ifrol/Regex-Number-GtLt-0.1
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~jsiracusa/Rose-HTML-Objects-0.550
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/SQL-Script-0.04
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/SVN-Class-0.02
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/SVN-Class-0.03
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Test-Harness-Straps-0.27
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Test-Simple-0.73_01
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~nanardon/VFSsimple-0.03
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~nanardon/VFSsimple-Drv-File-0.03
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~nanardon/VFSsimple-Drv-Ftp-0.03
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~nanardon/VFSsimple-Drv-Http-0.03
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~nanardon/VFSsimple-Drv-Iso-0.03
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~nanardon/VFSsimple-Drv-Rsync-0.03
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~gray/WWW-Anonymouse-0.02
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~gray/WebService-Google-Reader-0.03
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~wyant/Win32API-File-Time-0.006
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-0.78
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack-1.68



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