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 find_test_

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread Adam Kennedy
David Golden wrote: 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 in

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 way

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Dolan
On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:38 PM, chromatic wrote: I posted a small Module::Build subclass that shows one way to do this to Perl Monks: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=508160 Yeah, I saw that one. Perhaps a better approach is to store these tests in a subdirectory of t/. Beware that M::B h

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 (per

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

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 &

Re: Private tests

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Dolan
results may vary from machine to machine should be public wherever feasible. 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

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

Private tests

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Dolan
le system where authors publish the results of private tests with their distributions as a trust- based kwalitee system. http://www.chrisdolan.net/talk/index.php/2005/11/14/private- regression-tests/ Both positive and negative feedback is very welcome! Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software De

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