On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:47:10PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of MakeMaker-related questions.
>
> 1) Is the test suite (ExtUtils.t) reasonably trustworthy? In other
Yes, in as much as it shouldn't still pass if things are really aren't
able to make an extension
> words, if I'm making a change in MakeMaker.pm or MM_Unix.pm and the
> tests still pass, can I be reasonably certain that I haven't screwed
> everything up?
No, sadly not, because it's not very comprehensive.
It was mostly written because I found it hypocritical to propose adding a
new module (ExtUtils::Constant) to the core, without supplying any test
code. And as MakeMaker had no tests, there wasn't much to build on.
It's intended to be a test of ExtUtils::Constant. But the only way I could
find of testing that was to actually go about building an extension, which
exercises part of MakeMaker.
[I mailed 2 more tests, based on removing the ExtUtils:::Constant test code
from ExtUtils.t to this list, and saw no comment, only a warning that
the address I'm mailing from isn't my subscribed address. Did they ever
make it?]
Nicholas Clark
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