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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Monday February 09, 2004
01:00 PM

First Test Failure on the CPAN

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I have six distributions on the CPAN, yet I've never had a single test fail. I could pat myself on the back, but I do wonder if this is because I didn't write enough tests, skipped corner cases, or in the case of AI::NeuralNet::Simple, I didn't know how to test it (and hence have only 18 tests). A couple of days ago, I finally received a report of a test failure. It was on AI::NeuralNet::Simple. I wasn't surprised because the bulk of the code is written in C, so I naturally assumed that I was going to have some obvious error that a C neophyte like myself had overlooked.

Nope. The module depends Inline::C and a couple of test modules. Somewhere in the modules I use is a dependency on Sub::Uplevel. I haven't tracked down who uses it yet, but I'm kind of bummed out that my perfect (cough) track record was ruined by someone else's module. I don't want to put Sub::Uplevel in my Makefile.PL, so I'll have to get off my rear and find out who left it out of their dependencies.


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  • Ovid, that test was reported from my system. Sorry =D

    A similar failure was reported from testing Test::Class (source [perl.org]).

    Adrian, the author of Test::Class, suggested that my installation of Test::Exception was hosed, thus making Sub::Uplevel barf. After re-installing Test::Exception his distribution passed (source [perl.org]).

    I will try yours again tonight and see if it passes.

    • What curious timing. I was just about to post my research into this. I just decided to look into this and saw that Sub::Uplevel was coming from Test::Exception, but it's listed in the Makefile.PL. Test::Exception might be hosed, but it may just be a simple case of reinstalling Sub::Uplevel. Clearly you do have Test::Exception installed, otherwise the Sub::Uplevel call wouldn't have been made (though a clean install wouldn't hurt).

      And no worries. It was bound to happen sooner or later :)

      • Writing Makefile for AI::NeuralNet::Simple
        PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl5.8.0 "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
        t/10nn_simple....ok
        All tests successful.
        Files=1, Tests=18, 10 wallclock secs ( 9.27 cusr +  0.51 csys =  9.78 CPU)
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