* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-30 12:04]: > Eric Wilhelm wrote: > ># from Adam Kennedy > >>Thus, I would like to propose the following. > >>1. That the running of POD-related tests by end users is > >>considered harmful. > >+20 > > -40 > > I don't see that it's harmful at all. It's not even > particularly harmful (merely annoying) for an author to add > Test::Pod etc as pre-requisites. And if you have a religious > objection to installing them, you can always run the rest of > the tests for a module, see that it passes all the functional > tests, and force install it.
Sysadmins’ hairs grow grey over stuff like this. Hapless users are completely overwhelmed with it. Tests should NEVER EVER fail without a really good reason. The only ones who can deal with it relatively well are the Perl developers who themselves write modules and understand the mechanics well enough to be able to make a sound call. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
