diff --git a/xenomorph/info.rkt b/xenomorph/info.rkt
index 790f1c25..4864223a 100644
--- a/xenomorph/info.rkt
+++ b/xenomorph/info.rkt
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #lang info
 (define collection 'multi)
 (define version "0.0")
-(define pkg-authors '(mb))
-(define test-omit-paths 'all)
 (define deps '("base"
                "beautiful-racket-lib"
                "rackunit-lib"
diff --git a/xenomorph/xenomorph/array.rkt b/xenomorph/xenomorph/array.rkt
index 452b2e2d..9b16efa1 100644
--- a/xenomorph/xenomorph/array.rkt
+++ b/xenomorph/xenomorph/array.rkt
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ https://github.com/mbutterick/restructure/blob/master/src/Array.coffee
       (let* ([items (countable->list array)]
              [item-count (length items)]
              [max-items (if (number? len) len item-count)])
-        (unless (= item-count max-items)
-          (raise-argument-error 'Array:encode (format "list or countable with ~a items" max-items) items))
         (for ([item (in-list items)])
           (send type encode port item ctx))))
 
diff --git a/xenomorph/xenomorph/info.rkt b/xenomorph/xenomorph/info.rkt
index 7ef30ade..f238d403 100644
--- a/xenomorph/xenomorph/info.rkt
+++ b/xenomorph/xenomorph/info.rkt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #lang info
 
 (define scribblings '(("scribblings/xenomorph.scrbl" ())))
-(define compile-omit-paths '("test/test.rkt" "test/~stream.test.rkt" "private/~stream.rkt"))
+(define compile-omit-paths '("test/"))
diff --git a/xenomorph/xenomorph/test/test.rkt b/xenomorph/xenomorph/test/test.rkt
index 0a6b5b35..0727a033 100644
--- a/xenomorph/xenomorph/test/test.rkt
+++ b/xenomorph/xenomorph/test/test.rkt
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
     (list (cons 'name (make-object StringT uint8 'utf8))
           (cons 'age uint8))))
 
-;; decode a person from a buffer
-(define stream-in (make-object DecodeStream #"\4MikeA"))
-(define x (send Person decode stream-in))
+;; decode a person from a port
+(define ip (open-input-bytes #"\4MikeA"))
+(define x (send Person decode ip))
 
 (test-module
  (check-equal? (dict-ref x 'name) "Mike")