On 2005-03-08, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:33:30AM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> > I'd make life simpler and dump the shell scripts, see the note about
>> > cross-platform compatibility below.
>>
>> The philosophy behind allowing both is to have a low barrier to entry
>> for people submitting tests. Better to have tests in shell then no tests
>> at all.
>
> That may be true, but you're coding yourself into a compatibility wall.
I guess my hope has been that the non-Unixy people would step up to address
the issues that affect their own platform. For my part, I create all tests
in Perl. Perhaps this approach is an "attitude bug".
> Hmmm. No reason the Perl tests couldn't be as simple as the shell tests.
> I might submit a conversion. Maybe I'll get around to finally making
> ExtUtils::Command useful.
I'll be a beta tester. :)
> No where in the install documentation is "make test" mentioned so I suspect
> most people aren't running then.
I hadn't noticed that. I just submitted a patch to recommend running it.
Mark
