On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:52 PM, chromatic wrote:

Let me rephrase then.

I feel dirty writing tests just to trip up testers who can't set up working
testing environments.

I call those "non-functional tests", because they have very little to do with
things that actually matter in my software.

I respectfully suggest that maybe there is another way of looking at it, where the install process (governed by Makefile.PL/Build.PL) could possibly be a "test driven installation" process:

   use Test::More tests => 23;
   unlike( $^X,qr{\s}, q{'$^X' has no spaces in the path} ) ||
       BAIL_OUT(q{Cannot install.});


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