Re: [htmltmpl] The sf.net Subversion Repository and the Phalanx One

[Shlomi F. <sh...@ig...>]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 22:59, Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > A question if I may. Why weren't the tests and other changes that
> > were done to the Phalanx work on HTML-Template:
> >
> > * http://svn.perl.org/phalanx/HTML-Template/
> > * http://hew.ca/yapc/phalanx/slides/TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.html
> >
> > Integrated into the mainline HTML-Template at:
> >
> > https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/html-template/
>
> Lack of motivation, I suppose.  As far as I know they never found or
> fixed a bug in HTML::Template.  

Well, the main point of a full test coverage is to prevent *future* bugs.

> At this point their repo is out of 
> date and it would be a painful process to do the merge.
>
> Patches welcome, of course.  Beware though, I have a history of
> rejecting changes to existing tests - if it ain't broke...  New tests
> are always welcome though!

Check:

http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/perl/HTML-Template/h-t-phalanx.diff.bz2

Took me exactly 10 minutes to forward port the patch from the Phalanx 
repository. So it wasn't such a painful process. :-D

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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