--- Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had actually submitted a patch to 'prove' a long time ago which > > allowed prove to accept a pattern and only run tests whose > filenames > > match said pattern. It was never applied, so I assume Andy has > some > > reason why this might not be a good idea. Andy? > > Tuits. How long ago was this?
A couple of years ago. I remember following up with you about it, but I don't recall the outcome other than the patch not being applied. I seem to recall someone protesting that deliberately choosing a subset of tests to run is a dodgy practice (it's not), but I doubt it was you who said that. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
