Matthew Astley wrote:
...and if the dependencies aren't met, it's not the end of the world?
I guess the selftests would fail, and this can be inconvenient for installers (bug has been filed by Dave for t/try_examples.t).
We can just check for the presence of the XML releated modules, and skip the tests if they're not installed.
I suspect CPAN packages don't support recommended dependencies, but I haven't looked into that.
No, I don't think it does either. But we could just not list the XML modules as dependencies, then die with something like "Install XML::Generator to use Test::Unit::Runner::XML" if the module's used with XML::Generator being installed.
It depends on Time::HiRes,I'm now quite fond of using this when it's available and falling back on plain time() when it isn't, but it depends what you're up to.
I think it's worth leaving this dependency in, since Time::HiRes is such a frequently used module. Falling back to time() probably won't help much, since it's rare for a single unit test to run for more than a second. The elapsed time for each test would just be 0.
- talk about it (if people turn up for talking) - commit it (nice and easy) - put the tests somewhere they won't break an install (probably a few hours hacking about) - fix enough outstanding bugs to quiet the clamour of the users (!) (probably more talking required) - make a release... requires Piers' cooperation?
Sounds like a plan to me.
Andrew, are you keen to see your code release ASAP or is it just a "make it available and people might find it handy" distribution?
I've got no reason to have the code released ASAP, I think it would be better to try to work it in to a proper release of Test::Unit itself. The tarball I linked to is purely for any interested readers of the list to look at.
If you're happy with the handling of dependencies described above, I'll implement it.
-- Andrew (http://www.andreweland.org)
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