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

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

On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:43, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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.d
>iff.bz2
>
> Took me exactly 10 minutes to forward port the patch from the Phalanx
> repository. So it wasn't such a painful process. :-D
>

Hmmm... I spoke too soon. The first incarnation of the patch did not pass the 
tests. I now have a better patch at the same URL:

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

Please apply it instead.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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