Hi, Am Freitag, 12. September 2003 20:04 schrieb Stas Bekman: > [redirecting it to the httpd-test dev list where this discussion belongs] > > Boris Zentner wrote: > > Hi Stas, > > > > I spend the morning on porting Apache::PageKit to Apache::Test and make > > the installation of this large module easy. My idea to support perl < 5.8 > > and >= 5.8 was to use patch inside the makefile and make the changes to > > my files after they are copied to the blib directory. So the original > > files are avail everytime. Im not really sure if this is a good way, but > > it stopped working on the 'make test' part since on some configurations > > the content of Apache-PageKit/lib is not the same as Apache-PageKit/blib > > but Apache::Test use Apache-PageKit/lib instead Apache-PageKit/blib. I > > think this is wrong since if all goes well I install the content of > > Apache-PageKit/blib and this is not what I tested. > > > > I attach a patch that fix it for me. The above comment seems also > > misleading. > > The idea is to allow developers to test against the live files under lib, > to make it possible to develop while running the test suite. I use this > feature all the time in combination with Apache::Reload. You are right that > we want to test against the blib when users run 'make test'. Purhaps we > should make it configurable, so it's not hardwired? e.g. we could have an > environment variable APACHE_TEST_DEV_MODE which when set will add the > non-blib dirs to @INC.
I'm happy with the ENV idea; but i fail to see, why a lib after the blib spoil your work with Apache::Reload since under normal development, there is no blib directory. If possible I prefer a automatic solution. > > > BTW: Apache::Test is very powerfull. I had a lot of ideas that I can test > > now. Very easy. Thanks a lot. > > Thanks ;) > > > But you should add this pod > > 'Running and Developing Tests with the Apache::Test Framework' > > with Apache::Test. If I had not found that document, I never used > > Apache::Test. And it is soooo usefull. Please consider to put it in. > > The pointer to that document is at the very beginning of > Apache-Test/README, it's hard to miss it. Ok, I missed that. But my biggest concern is that I love perldoc so I whould like to see the the pointer to http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html at the end of the Apache::Test pod. So the important hint is also avail after the installation. And the examples from the README could have a better place in the Apache::Test pod. Even better if I could type 'perldoc Apache::Test::Howto'. -- Boris
