| Subject: | Allowing Automated CPAN Tests |
Dear Jonathan Stowe,
Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. I'm current acting as a CPAN
tester and running tests for all the uploaded CPAN packages daily.
It seems that your Term-Screen-0.04 does not allow automated tests.
It keeps waiting key press from the console. In the case of automated
tests that STDIN is closed, nothing can be returned from getch() and
hence it enters an infinite loop.
As a CPAN tester testing 40-50 modules per day, I really cannot test
every package and check their input alone. Having such a package that
does not satisfy without STDIN really frustrate me as it uses up all my
CPU and system resources that I can contribute to other packages that
need more tests.
Could you please help solving this issue, by allowing that if
nothing was obtained from getch() then stops testing? Thank you very
much. You are greatly appreciated by the large CPAN family.
I attached the last terminal screen below, in the hope that it
helps. The automated tests hangs here. Please tell me if you need any
more information. Thank you.
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Test series for Screen.pm module for perl5
1. Should be at row 2 col 3 (upper left is 0,0)
2. Last position -- should be 2 50.
3. Screen size: rows and columns.
4. Testing reverse mode, bold mode, and both together.
5. Testing clreol - The next 2 lines should end at col 20 and 30.
0---------10--------
0---------10--------20--------
0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50--------60--------70-------
6. Clreos - Hit a key to clear all right and below:
7. Test insert and delete line - 15 deleted, and ...
13--------10--------20--------30--------40--------50--------60--------70-------
... this is where line 14 was
14--------10--------20--------30--------40--------50--------60--------70-------
16--------10--------20--------30--------40--------50--------60--------70-------
8. Key_pressed - Don't Hit a key in the next 5 seconds: HEY A KEY WAS HIT
Hit a key in next 15 seconds: KEY HIT!
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imacat@rinse ~ % top -b | head
.....
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2483 imacat 25 0 27116 2836 1672 R 99.9 0.1 1:16.46 perl
2522 imacat 17 0 17916 788 560 S 2.0 0.0 0:00.01 head
1 root 16 0 2652 88 52 S 0.0 0.0 0:49.03 init
imacat@rinse ~ %
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