On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 21:00 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:40:45AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:

> > We should be very wary of stipulating HOW authors have to achieve their
> > quality. Saying you can only check your POD in one specific way goes to
> > far IMO.
>  
> That's a good point.
> 
> OTOH, I know of several people who added Pod::Coverage to their test suites
> (and hopefully found some undocumented methods...) because of this metric.
> Thus one goal (raising the overall quality (!) of CPAN) is reached.

Adding a kwalitee check for a test that runs Devel::Cover by default
might on the surface appear to meet this goal, but I hope people
recognize it as a bad idea.

Why, then, is suggesting that people ship tests for POD errors and
coverage a good idea?

-- c

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