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From:
Christopher H. Laco
Date:
March 28, 2005 15:20
Subject:
Re: Test::META
Message ID:
42489140.9080901@chrislaco.com
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:42:50AM -0500, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>
>>That's another gripe of mine about M::B and create_makefile_pl.
>>It puts the requires AND build_requires in the PREREQ_PM in the
>>Makefile.PL, which I won't want; nor do I think it right for everyone.
>
>
> There is no build_requires or recommends equivalent in MakeMaker, nor will
> there be, so putting it into PREREQ_PM is the best thing to do. That's
> what every MakeMaker-based module on CPAN does after all.
>
> Its better than just dropping it and having the build fail.
That's a matter of opinion; one I think should be left up to the person
makeing Build.PL.
>>Take Test::More for example. It's usually a build_requires and the other
>>Test* things like Test::Strict, Apache::Test, etc are in recommends.
>>Test probably won't run with Test::More, but skipping a few subtests
>>based on recommends is ok. But I don't think build_requires should be a
>>PREREQ_PM requirement at all.
>
>
> *scratch head* but if you don't have the modules necessary to BUILD the
> module (as opposed to those necessary to run it)... how are you going to
> build it?
See definition below from the docs on what build_requires [ambiguously]
means.
> Maybe there's some confusion here as to what "build_requires" means?
> Perhaps you're confusing it with the (possibly mythological) test_requires
> and test_recommends?
Absolutely it's confusion.
http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-new.html
> A YAML mapping indicating the Perl modules required for building and/or testing of this distribution. These dependencies are not required after the module is installed.
So, to me this means something like Test::More.
It absolutely has to be in place to some *.t files to ever work, or even
load. Now granted the test may end up just skipping because Test::Strict
isn't instealled. In that situation, I see Test::More just as required
as strict.pm.
Maybe this is my issue. To me, building and testing are two different
things. I don't have to test. Ever. By I do have to build the module.
build_requires is a bad place for test requirements, but recommends
isn't right either.
-=Chris
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