On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06:21AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> I've seen the discussion about author tests resurface now and then.
> For some modules, when the author disappears from the Internet, the
> only thing that's left is the distribution (no public repository).
> 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.
The cpantesters tools are just wrappers around the normal test
harnesses. It's those that would need to ignore xt/. Which, I believe,
is what they do anyway.
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