Re: [Module-build-general] sorting tests

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 02:00  AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> By default, tests are now sorted in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  In older
> versions, it just used 'glob', which normally sorted the results anyway.

I sort of wish Test::Harness sorted these internally, instead of 
requiring the caller to sort them.  But I can do a patch like this, in 
any case, until it's deemed inadequate:

=======================================
    if (@tests) {
      # Work around a Test::Harness bug that loses the particular perl 
we're running under
      local $^X = $self->{config}{perlpath} unless 
$Test::Harness::VERSION gt '2.01';
-    Test::Harness::runtests(@tests);
+    Test::Harness::runtests(sort @tests);
    } else {
      print("No tests defined.\n");
    }
=======================================

I'll apply it when Sourceforge imports the CVS tree.


>
> There is also a 'TEST_FILES' parameter for WriteMakefile which 
> specifies a
> list of tests to run (I think as a string).  It'd be good to have an
> equivalent for M::B.

Yeah, I agree that TEST_FILES is handy, and some kind of selector 
mechanism like that should be in M::B.  Not sure what the syntax should 
look like yet.  Internally, it should just generate a list of files to 
run.

  -Ken