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Re: Author tests and IPC::System::Simple



On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:20:15 +1100, Paul Fenwick wrote:

> > $ TEST_AUTHOR=1 prove --blib --verbose t/08_core.t
> > t/08_core....1..3
> > ok 1 - use IPC::System::Simple;
> > ok 2 - Signal caught,   $? = 6
> > ok 3 - Coredump caught, $? = 6
> Excellent!  $? = 6 shows that $? is being mangled by Perl, but
> IPC::System::Simple is still detecting the core-dump.  Thank-you very much!

You're welcome, I'm glad I could help.
 
> > Do you plan to release a new version on CPAN in the near future?
> I hope to have a new release out on the CPAN this weekend. I'll be happy to
> drop a note to debian-perl when it's out.

Great!
I'll grab and upload it to the Debian Archive (well, to the NEW queue
...) as soon as possible.
 
> > BTW: If I'm not mistaken t/core is not removed, neither by the tests
> > nor by make {real,dist,}clean.
> That's a bug.  Because it's always been marked as an author test, I didn't
> lose any sleep about the core file not being cleaned up.  Since it's now
> getting heavy usage (and I'd like to move it out of the author test suite),
> I've pushed an (untested but trivial) change to my repo that cleans the core
> files up at the end.  This should also make it into the release.

Sweet, thanks.


Cheers,
gregor 
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