>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> All I'm asking for in my quest is to keep the "install health check" >> tests down to a minute or two. Remember that CPAN.pm insists that >> "make test" works before I can install. Andrew> I agree. Modules should commonly have long-running exhaustive tests Andrew> and/or stress tests. These tests are primarily for the benefit of Andrew> module maintainers; it's unreasonable to expect users to wait hours Andrew> for them to run. I think this is a common enough scenario to warrant Andrew> defining a standard way to do it -- which may be as simple as Andrew> agreeing on a standard name of a single environment variable Andrew> (I don't have enough experience to suggest a good name, however). No, it doesn't need a standard name. The default should be the "install tests" without any special envar. The developer can select their own set of envars to control various *longer* tests. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
