On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:47:46PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> I've committed my t/41 and t/42 changes to subversion. They are not the
> same as what I submitted to the list.
>
> > Is there any reason to now use skip_all? (Remember, you're wearing
> > the official "Test Expert" hat now so you need to weigh up the
> > issues and make recommendations :)
>
> We can't use skip_all, because the t/zv_pp* files have to run their
> non-zv_pp counterparts as well. I put it back the way it was.
>
> I wanted to use skip_all so that we aren't doing roll-your-own on things
> that already are well-defined.
The t/zv* tests just do this kind of thing:
#!perl -w
$ENV{DBI_PUREPERL}=2;
do 't/01basics.t' or warn $!;
die if $@;
exit 0
so an exit 0 from within the underlying test script should be fine.
> > One concern just popped into my head... I'd like to not have to
> > depend on very recent versions of Test::More. Can you look into
> > that and make recommendations about what version of Test::More
> > we should use as a minimum?
>
> Earliest on CPAN is 0.45, and that should be just fine. I don't see
> anything in the Changes file that tells me otherwise.
>
> The most "very recent" version of Test::More is from August 2002.
Okay. Thanks.
Tim.
