Yanick Champoux wrote: > Elliot Shank wrote: >> David Cantrell wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:51:57AM -0700, Jonathan Swartz wrote: >>>> Is there a standard for signifying internal-only tests, and for >>>> make test to figure out when they should run? >>> >>> The normal way is to have them skip unless some magic environment >>> variable is set. >> >> Perl::Critic used to do this and then we'd get bug reports from people >> who used the same environment variables to run their author tests. > > To get around this problem, what I sometime do is to use the > environment TEST_AUTHOR, but instead of just setting it to a true value, > I set it to the list of modules I own. E.g., > > $ export TEST_AUTHOR = "Test::Pod::Snippet,Git::CPAN::Patch" > > and then when I check for TEST_AUTHOR, I check specifically for the > current module:
I do a similar thing, but instead of listing every module I just set it to my CPAN id and look for that. -- 185. My name is not a killing word. -- The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army http://skippyslist.com/list/