David Golden writes: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So let's see what needs to be done in order to be able to keep > > the test files and run them later. > > > > There are two concerns I could immediately see. > > 1) Tests might assume a certain directory structure, they might say > > use lib 'lib'; > > use lib 't/lib'; > > or other things. > > 2) Tests might use other files outside the t/ directory. > > 3) What else do you think might be problematic? > > Seems like a lot of headache. Why not just save the tarballs > somewhere?
Were there tarballs in the first place? > Then you're certain to recreate the environment that the distribution > expected for its tests when run by CPAN.pm. Suppose a Fedora or Ubuntu user is wanting to check that upgrading the OS hasn't caused any test regressions, it's likely that at least some of the existing Perl modules were installed as RPMs or Debian packages, not by CPAN.pm from tarballs. Smylers
