# from Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
# on Wednesday 29 October 2008 17:06:
>> > >has-test-pod and has-test-pod-coverage ones (if you find that any
>> > > of my modules meet those metrics, please file a bug report.)
>> >
>> > Oh, come on Eric, I'm proud of TP (which is really brian's) and
>> > TPC!
>>
>> Hey, I love those modules... but I don't want to ship tests with
>> them in my dist. Nobody needs to run those but me.
The test files for these things don't need to exist, the functionality
to run these checks is builtin to Module::Build. And, if I want to
customize it, I'll do it there.
>It would certainly be for the best if those distributions contained as
>much useful data as possible, and that certainly does include author
>tests. I seem to remember that putting them in xt/ was the consensus,
>and that the cpantesters tools would ignore them.
Yes, true. Yes. Certainly.
That doesn't change my stance on the duplication of standard code. The
presence of t/*test-pod.t or t/*test-pod-coverage.t in any of my
modules is a bug. Thus, I will never get those kmwalbxlahtie points.
--Eric
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