Re: [Module::Build] [RFC] author tests

[Chris D. <ch...@cl...>]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Tyler MacDonald wrote:

> 	If they're not a developer, what are they doing running unit tests
> in the first place??? End users typically install applications,  
> which either
> prebundle a whole bunch of perl packages or rely on some package  
> management
> system (ppm, deb, etc) to separate real dependancies from build  
> dependancies
> for them and only install what they need.

The end users may be in a different environment from me.  I usually  
only tests Perl 5.8.6 on OS X and Linux before release, so I rely on  
other installers to provide bug reports for me.

> 	I think in this case Test::Pod should be a build_requires... Your
> other examples (copyright.t, etc) obviously will only work on your  
> system so
> it makes sense for those to have some sort of special treatment.

Test::Pod is different from general regression tests.  POD should  
either pass on all systems or fail on all.  In what scenario would  
POD fail on a non-developer system.  And even if it did fail, do I  
want to scare people off from using my code because I have an =item  
without an =over?  No.  So, I want pod.t to be a non-core test in my  
modules.  Currently I only include it in MANIFEST because of Kwalitee 
[1].

Chris

[1] However, I am grateful to Kwalitee for getting to adopt Test::Pod  
and its ilk in the first place!

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