> Von: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im 
[snip]
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:14:30PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> > >So a new option in Makefile.PL like "MANIFEST_ORDERED_TESTS" => 1,
> > 
> > If you want a particular ordering why not write a small 
> Perl program 
> > to call the files in the right order and make that the test 
> case that 
> > is run from 'make test'?

this would be a cheap work around, error prone and ghastly to maintain.
Isn't that
stuff belonging to well standardized MM ?

> As we all know, altering MakeMaker is Fraught With Peril.

I know i have no arguments, except one: usability.

The file-renaming-for-sorting reminds me of fixing a leaky fuel tube
with a chewing gum. I want
a neat looking polished testsuite with simple parameters that DWIM. That
would keep me writing tests
without this migraine.

Progress comes from change (i have to admit - also in back direction).

Murat

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