# from David Cantrell # on Thursday 30 October 2008 09:11: >> It would certainly be for the best if those distributions contained >> as much useful data as possible, and that certainly does include >> author tests. I seem to remember that putting them in xt/ was the >> consensus, and that the cpantesters tools would ignore them. > >The cpantesters tools are just wrappers around the normal test >harnesses. It's those that would need to ignore xt/. Which, I > believe, is what they do anyway.
Yes. To be precise, they ignore everything which isn't 't/'. (Though, one day, I would like for them to selectively pay attention to the contents of xt/ based on some sort of standard declaration of requirements for "eXtra Testing".) --Eric -- "...our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent overeducation from happening." --William Troy Harris --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------