On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:15:28PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:05 PM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I take it that we would say that the test.pl is faulty here, in that it > > exits with a 0 status despite a test failing. However, I betcha that > > there are *lots* of test.pl files out there that suffer from this - I > > know mine did when I used them - so would it be worthwhile for > > CPAN::Reporter etc to check whether it really is a pass?
There ARE lots and many are for old releases that have been updated in a long time. > I would rather see test.pl added as a negative Kwalitee score and > manage it that way. DG++ I think there was some discussion regards this very point a while back, but I don't think it ever got implemented. > Trying to "guess" at the intent of tests is a mess. Nail on the head. > We have enough heuristics as is -- there is a > well defined -- if poorly understood -- convention that test.pl should > report success or failure with its exit code. We should leave it at > that. Agreed. We should recommend people use the Test::Simple and friends, with a t/ directory, but second guessing what should be the result is going to be a headache and a half. Have you seen the TAP discussions laterly? Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers - http://birmingham.pm.org Memoirs Of A Roadie - http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk
