[Perlunit-devel] Re: [Perlunit-users] Seeking more info about PerlUnit

[Christian L. <le...@ai...>]

Matthias Ferber <mf...@hi...> writes:

> Hi folks,
> 
> This seems to be a near-dead mailing list, but perhaps still the best way
> to contact the minds behind PerlUnit.  So, tally-ho.  (There does seem to
> be activity on SourceForge, so I'm hopeful that I'm not yelling into a
> vacuum here.) 

No you are not - but the main activity is happening on perlunit-devel.

> I'm leading a rather optimistic covert effort to popularize JUnit and
> friends in my company's development environment.  We use both Java and
> Perl, which makes PerlUnit an attractive variant.  I've been playing with
> it over the last few days and I like it, but the available docs don't
> supply a lot of context for gauging where it is. 
> 
> My main question is, can you give me any vague idea of how stable you feel
> PerlUnit is at this point?  I'd like very much to put it to active use at
> work to some extent.  It's clearly still well in the development stage, so
> I understand that anything I do with it is At My Own Risk.  But I'm hoping
> that if this is a really bad idea at this point because everything is
> going to change completely, someone will wave me off, at least. 

Well, let's put it that way: nearly all of the email that I have
received and a lot of the posts on perlunit-devel seem to indicate
that people do already use PerlUnit at work.

I don't think that everything is going to change completely, but you
might have a word about that with the folks on perlunit-devel. Still,
the basic idea is to provide an implementation of the XUnit framework
for Perl, and that is relatively stable. Do you have any specific
things you are worried about?

> My second question is whether you're interested in feedback from whatever
> there is of a user community, i.e. (as far as I know) me.  I have a couple
> of minor suggestions based on a couple of days of use that I'd be happy to
> toss up if anyone is interested.

Oh yes, very interested. Please join the perlunit-devel mailing list
or just keep posting to this list (perlunit-users), and mail us your
comments and criticisms. Feedback is always welcome.

Cheers,

Christian Lemburg

P.S.: Please  note that I do not maintain Test::Unit anymore. 
The new maintainer is Piers Cawley together with the folks on 
the PerlUnit sourceforge group.

> Regards -- and thanks for doing the work so far on this.
> 
> -- Matthias Ferber
> mf...@hi...
> 
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