Michael Cummings wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 16:36 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
--->>>*** The primary purpose of the install chain is to install modules
***<<<---
Not to test the module.
Is it too late to speak out against this? As a 'packager' of CPAN
I think the key word in Schwern's statement is "primary". One of many
secondary purposes is to provide a standardized way of running tests.
No one is planning to change that.
But I agree with Schwern that a passing TODO shouldn't be an overall
failure. If something really *shouldn't* work and unexpected success is
really wrong, then it should be written as a normal test of the failure
case.
TODO means "don't have the result of this test affect the outcome yet".
Regards,
David Golden
