Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On Monday 14 November 2005 18:21, Chris Dolan wrote: Hello all, I've just published an article about public vs. private regression tests. I've defined private tests as t/*.t files that are for the author only and don't go in MANIFEST. Naturally

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 15:23 -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: After reading some of the insightful comments posted on my blog, I've been convinced that the private tests should be included in the CPAN distribution, but disabled in some way (perhaps via a file extension other than .t

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
Le mardi 15 novembre 2005 à 15:23, Chris Dolan écrivait: After reading some of the insightful comments posted on my blog, I've been convinced that the private tests should be included in the CPAN distribution, but disabled in some way (perhaps via a file extension other than .t

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread Adam Kennedy
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: Le mardi 15 novembre 2005 à 15:23, Chris Dolan écrivait: After reading some of the insightful comments posted on my blog, I've been convinced that the private tests should be included in the CPAN distribution, but disabled in some way (perhaps via a file

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread David Golden
Adam Kennedy wrote: What about a special environment variable, like RUN_PRIVATE_TESTS? I've been working on a concept of taggable tests on some of my larger commercial stuff, integrating with the Test::More skip() function, and some form of environment variables does indeed seem the best

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 22:33 -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: Beware that M::B has a recursive mode for finding tests. It's set by the author, so you should be safe in this case, but it's a point worth remembering. I haven't looked at the code again just now, but wouldn't overriding

Private tests

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Dolan
Hello all, I've just published an article about public vs. private regression tests. I've defined private tests as t/*.t files that are for the author only and don't go in MANIFEST. Naturally, those don't get as much publicity as tests included in CPAN distributions. In the article I