# from Ricardo SIGNES
# on Monday 25 February 2008 04:59:
>Basically, it lets you say "author_tests('xt')" in your Makefile.PL
> (using Module::Install) to have a directory (or directory tree) of
> tests run only by the module's authors.
Now we only have to determine 'author'ness. I was thinking something
along the lines of a capabilities/willingness registry for testers
would be the way to handle it. That doesn't address the on/off switch
for extra so much as which bits to test (do I have a chroot, ramdisk,
etc. available.)
But: I dislike the 'authortests' naming. These are simply "extra"
tests, so whether you're the author only matters in terms of your 'make
dist' default -- that is: a volunteer tester should be able to run as
many of the extra tests as desired, while an author must run them all.
--Eric
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