* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-30 01:35]: > This means buzzword#42 (simplethingssimple-hardthingspossible) > where the complicated (aliases, wrappers, etc) case is like:
YAGNI. We already have other ways to make hard things possible. “Hard things possible” does not imply “using exactly the same mechanism as for simple things.” Passing information to tests via `%ENV` has always been possible f.ex., and now we have `--exec` for the heavy duty stuff. I see this proposal as a way to cover the majority of ultraminimal parametrisation needs *only*. Ie. I’d switch to `%ENV` at the point where I started thinking of putting `use Getopt::Long;` in my `.t` files. Or I might use a combination of `%ENV` and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (because putting lists of things in env variables suffers from quoting issues). In any case, given a mechanism to do the hard things, I think it perfectly fine to have another simpler mechanism that refuses to be all things to all people if that is the price for staying simple. * Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-30 01:45]: > If you want to be able to flip flop in and out of test args and > prove args modes just repeat it and say that tests can't use > '::' as an arg. > > $ prove -rb :: gargoyle :: --state=hot,save,all :: splendour :: t/spog.t Please no. That’s unreadable. Let’s just do the simplest thing that could possibly work and then leave well enough alone; see above argumentation. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
