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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 06:04:48AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > Why not? In that, the core distribution doesn't need to install its own > > "test_requires". It would be perfectly feasible to have the module in the > > tarball and use it for testing, but to edit the installation scripts to > > skip installing it. > > > > If it's the best tool for the job, and avoids wheel re-invention, it > seems > > the best solution. > > Aha. Because it's not self-contained, or anything like that. It has a > pretty large list of pre-requisites of its own: > > https://metacpan.org/source/ADAMK/Test-Inline-2.212/META.yml > > Sigh. > > I'll repeat though, that the core distribution doesn't need to install and > modules only used for testing. (Or for building, for that matter). > > Nicholas Clark > That's a author_requires/build_requires in my opinion. Is it a problem that Perl requires non-core modules for it's test suite? Do author-only tests exist at the moment? Cause the whole pod checking is nothing a user should have to run on install imho.Thread Previous | Thread Next