Yanick Champoux wrote:
> Elliot Shank wrote:
>> David Cantrell wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:51:57AM -0700, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
>>>> Is there a standard for signifying internal-only tests, and for
>>>> make test to figure out when they should run?
>>>
>>> The normal way is to have them skip unless some magic environment
>>> variable is set.
>>
>> Perl::Critic used to do this and then we'd get bug reports from people
>> who used the same environment variables to run their author tests.
>
> To get around this problem, what I sometime do is to use the
> environment TEST_AUTHOR, but instead of just setting it to a true value,
> I set it to the list of modules I own. E.g.,
>
> $ export TEST_AUTHOR = "Test::Pod::Snippet,Git::CPAN::Patch"
>
> and then when I check for TEST_AUTHOR, I check specifically for the
> current module:
I do a similar thing, but instead of listing every module I just set it to my
CPAN id and look for that.
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