In article <200812121032.00515.enoba...@gmail.com>, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> # from Ovid > # on Friday 12 December 2008 04:37: > > >Running a single test means that I ... want to run that test. > >... Here are conditions I see crop up in tests: > > POD_COVERAGE ... FAST_TESTS ... PROFILE_TESTS > > ... > >doesn't (and usually shouldn't) know if other tests are being run ... > > > >... "prove" shouldn't have special-case knowledge ... > > > >... but I don't know if anyone else would benefit or if this is the > > right approach. > > This is exactly the sort of thing I was getting at when we had the > discussion about the xt/ directory. This is also what I was thinking when I made Test::Manifest. I wanted something external to the build file where I could change the sets of tests to run. It has rudimentary support for test levels, but I haven't connected it to anything higher than that.
