[MacPerl] Re: [MacPerl-Modules] HTML::Pareser 3.13 Test Error

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 13:17 +0200 2000.09.20, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:16:52 -0400, Paul Schinder wrote:
>
>>Those error messages you're seeing are a deliberate part of the test,
>>and actually most of the tests are passing.  The problem is a common
>>one.  MacPerl prepends a '# ' to the messages that go into $@, and
>>the tests look for an anchored string, so the string doesn't match.
>>Take the ^ off the match strings in the tests and see what happens.
>
>This comes up regularily. Having a different error message format than
>the rest of the Perl world is annoying for this kind of tests, but
>having an error message that is different from what LWP normally would
>expect form a program, is not ideal either.
>
>How about having a Macintosh specific special variable (or a hash entry,
>for example in %^H; too bad perlvar advises against it), which controls
>which error message format you get, would that work?


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>Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:09:06 -0500
>From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
>To: MacPerl List <mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl warn and die format
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>John W Baxter writes:
>
>>At 21:32 -0500 1/15/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>>
>>> This discussion seems to have died.  Did we come to a resolution?  Will we
>>> keep it the same, and I'll add a note to perlport?
>
>>I concluded near the point at which the debate died that it's
>>probably more important to conform to the Perl form (so that code
>>which makes the unwarranted assumption about error formats never
>>changing will run) than to the MPW form of error messages.  As one
>>who started out strongly in the MPW-format camp, I thought I should
>>mention my change.
>
>Since I was also someone who was arguing for retaining the MPW style
>die format, I should also mention that I'm perfectly willing to have
>it change to the standard form.
>
>I still want the MPW style die messages, but I figure I'm willing to
>make a module that traps die() messages and reformats the error. Once
>thats done and put in my PERL5OPTS, perl will still act like an MPW
>tool to me. Modules that also trap die() will see standard format perl
>error messages, and everyone else will be happy. (and everyone who
>things that MPW is a pseudo-Unix environment can continue their
>delusion.)
>--
>Andrew Langmead


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>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl warn and die format
>From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
>Date: 19 Jan 1999 07:35:06 +0100
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>It seems that the approach suggested by Andrew et al. should satisfy pretty
>much everybody, so the default is going to revert to Un*x style messages.
>
>Matthias
>
>--
>Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
>   "I'm set free to find a new illusion" -- Velvet Underground


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