Christopher H. Laco wrote:
Chris Dolan wrote:
On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:13 AM, David Golden wrote:
Given what you use, perhaps qr/AUTHOR_TEST/ is a good idea.
That's cool. Then I could do C<if ($ENV{AUTHOR_TEST_CDOLAN}){ ... }> in
my .t files and just set that to 1 in my .cshrc for all time.
I've seen discussion of the right env var name has been batted around
here and on the Module::Build list a couple of times without resolution
or blessing. So, I hereby propose new .t boilerplate:
use Test::More;
if (!$ENV{AUTHOR_TEST} && !$ENV{AUTHOR_TEST_<CPANID>}) {
plan skip_all => 'Author test';
}
plan ...;
where <CPANID> is either the maintainer's PAUSE username or, for large
projects, some unique package/family identifier. For example, my PAUSE
ID of "CDOLAN" or a project ID like "PLAGGER" or "PERL_CRITIC" or
"DATETIME".
People who want to be really thorough can set the AUTHOR_TEST=1 and run
through all of the optional tests on all installed CPAN modules. This
should not be set on automated/smoke systems because an author test is
one which is only needs to succeed (or perhaps only *can* succeed) on a
developer's machine.
Chris
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Just for the sake of mentioning other things...in terms of this topic,
what is an "author" in AUTHOR_TEST_<CPANID> ?
Is that the original author? The last person who uploaded the dist? A
random author from a group of "core developers"? And how woulod I know
which ones to choose as the person using AUTHOR_TEST_<CPANID>?
Sometimes the author isn't the author, and authors change. Sometimes, a
module's "author" varies in the eyes of the public depending on who last
uploaded the dist.
Personally, I use TEST_PRIVATE instead to avoid any implied ties like that.
But I'm silly like that. :-)
Perhaps, PERL_RELEASE_TESTING or something then...
Adam K
