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On Tue, 15 May 2012, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Mon May 14 06:02:08 2012, doughera wrote:
> > While trying to track down a failed test, I found the instructions
> > in the INSTALL file to be less than optimal.
> >
> > This patch re-orders the suggestions to put the ones most likely
> > to work first, clarifies which directory you should be in, and
> > moves a "see-also" type reference to where it is more likely to be
> > useful.
> >
>
> +1 to this patch.
>
> In other contexts (e.g., Parrot), people are accustomed to running a
> program called some variation of "harness" and often expect that program
> to be what, in some sense, "'make test' does."
>
> In contrast, having to say something like '-MTest::Init' is more arcane.
> It certainly took me months to wrap my head around it.
For me, it was more a question of what worked vs. what didn't always
work.
I've applied that patch to blead as
commit 36bded947b191af9d49762ac9409f96f0d5905d7
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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