Author: jkeenan Date: Thu May 3 19:14:52 2007 New Revision: 18417 Modified: trunk/docs/configuration.pod
Log: Applying patch submitted in http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=42429 clarifying ambiguous use of the term 'test' in several locations. Modified: trunk/docs/configuration.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/configuration.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/configuration.pod Thu May 3 19:14:52 2007 @@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ F<foo.pm> uses F<bar_c.in>, F<bar_c.in> should be in a directory called F<foo>; the full path might be F<config/auto/foo/bar_c.in>. -Generally, when adding a new test you should add a new step unless a test -I<clearly> belongs in a current step. For example, if we added a new -user-configurable type called C<FOOVAL>, you should add the test for its size -in F<config/auto/sizes.pm>; however, if you were testing what dynaloading -capabilities are available, you should create a new step. +Generally, when adding a new component to the configuration process you should +add a new step unless that component I<clearly> belongs in a current step. For +example, if you added a new user-configurable type called C<FOOVAL>, you would +add the code used to determine its size in F<config/auto/sizes.pm>. However, +if you were determining what dynaloading capabilities are available, you would +create a new step. =head2 Initialization Steps @@ -93,10 +94,10 @@ New steps should be added in one of the three folders mentioned above. -All steps are really classes; they each exist in a unique namespace. The -namespace used depends on the tests relative path in the source tree minus sans -the F<config> prefix. For example, the step F<config/init/defaults.pm> uses -the C<init::defaults> namespace. +All steps are really classes; each exists in a unique namespace. The +namespace used depends on the step's relative path in the source tree sans the +F<config> prefix. For example, the step F<config/init/defaults.pm> uses the +C<init::defaults> namespace. They should define the following methods:
