> Even if you have a smoke bot, you presumably run the tests (depends on the > size of the suite I suppose) before a checkin and it's convenient to know > that the first failure message you see if the most relevant (ie at the > lowest level). Also when running tests interactively it's nice to be able to > save even 30 seconds by killing the suite if a low level test fails,
Sure, but even better is to run only the tests that need to be run, which is a key part of prove. You can run "prove -Mblib t/mytest.t" instead of the entire "make test" suite. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance