Heap::Simple doesn't work for me, unfortunately: it requires either Heap::Simple::XS or Heap::Simple::Perl, and both fail their test suites.

Nice defeatist attitude. I strongly suspect that the test failures have almost nothing to do with the functionality of the module and that if you simply "force" the install, that Heap::Simple will work fine and be quite useable for you.

Two minutes of investigation certainly reinforces this impression for me. The complexity of getting the unit tests to run correctly is much greater than and very different from the complexity of making the module functional, especially in this case.

Update: And a quick glance at the test results leads me to suspect that just using version 0.11 would even lead to the unit tests just working. Update2: And a look at the Changes shows that there are likely no feature differences between 0.11 and the latest version.

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: Size-limited, fitness-based lists (tests) by tye
in thread Size-limited, fitness-based lists by AppleFritter

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