# from Ken Williams
# on Monday 13 August 2007 07:41 pm:
>The problem is that we've always defined testing as part of
>building. If we now split someone's test prereqs into test_requires
>and stop listing them in build_requires, then any tool that doesn't
>know about test_requires will miss that prereq and tests will fail.
>
>So if we did make this split, people would have to keep listing such
>prereqs in build_requires too. I suspect that would become confusing.
Can that be accurately qualified as "to be compatible with older M::B,
people would have to keep ..." ? Is that solvable by
configure_requires?
I'm wondering if there's a way that the code can do this for them.
Perhaps I need a better understanding of how CPAN and CPANPLUS are
getting their information (_build/prereqs ?)
And back to the retest thing: would it be useful to install the
META.yml as something generated during the build? This would get the
platform-specific bits down to a per-machine basis, no?
--Eric
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