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From:
Andy Armstrong
Date:
January 21, 2007 07:19
Subject:
Re: Test::Harness 3.0
Message ID:
871365AE-991D-4856-93FF-8B569CF895B2@hexten.net
On 21 Jan 2007, at 15:13, David Golden wrote:

> On 1/21/07, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net> wrote:
>> export TEST_HARNESS_DUMP_TAP=/home/me/test.tap
>> export TEST_HARnESS_DUMP_YAML=/home/me/test.yaml
>> make test
>
> nit: I know it breaks with tradition, but  
> PERL_TEST_HARNESS_DUMP_TAP, etc.?
>
> When I asked about environment variables to capture for CPAN::Reporter
> and in earlier in discussions about skipping Pod tests unless an
> environment variable was set, there was some discussion that things
> like "AUTOMATED_TESTING" should really have been
> "PERL_AUTOMATED_TESTING" and so forth.
>
> Should Test::Harness 3.0 start to move in that direction?

Agreed. Makes sense to keep everything in a PERL_ namespace if  
possible. I wasn't really proposing having a lower case 'n' in the  
middle of TEST_HARnESS_DUMP_YAML either :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net


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