Chris Dolan wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:13 AM, David Golden wrote:
>
>> Given what you use, perhaps qr/AUTHOR_TEST/ is a good idea.
>
> That's cool. Then I could do C<if ($ENV{AUTHOR_TEST_CDOLAN}){ ... }> in
> my .t files and just set that to 1 in my .cshrc for all time.
>
> I've seen discussion of the right env var name has been batted around
> here and on the Module::Build list a couple of times without resolution
> or blessing. So, I hereby propose new .t boilerplate:
>
> use Test::More;
> if (!$ENV{AUTHOR_TEST} && !$ENV{AUTHOR_TEST_<CPANID>}) {
> plan skip_all => 'Author test';
> }
> plan ...;
>
> where <CPANID> is either the maintainer's PAUSE username or, for large
> projects, some unique package/family identifier. For example, my PAUSE
> ID of "CDOLAN" or a project ID like "PLAGGER" or "PERL_CRITIC" or
> "DATETIME".
>
> People who want to be really thorough can set the AUTHOR_TEST=1 and run
> through all of the optional tests on all installed CPAN modules. This
> should not be set on automated/smoke systems because an author test is
> one which is only needs to succeed (or perhaps only *can* succeed) on a
> developer's machine.
>
> Chris
>
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>
> Just for the sake of mentioning other things...in terms of this topic, what is an "author" in AUTHOR_TEST_<CPANID> ? Is that the original author? The last person who uploaded the dist? A random author from a group of "core developers"? And how woulod I know which ones to choose as the person using AUTHOR_TEST_<CPANID>? Sometimes the author isn't the author, and authors change. Sometimes, a module's "author" varies in the eyes of the public depending on who last uploaded the dist. Personally, I use TEST_PRIVATE instead to avoid any implied ties like that. But I'm silly like that. :-) -=Chris
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