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On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 12:26:13PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > > Yes, you have stated this position before. Do you also have something > > to say to Karl’s detailed objections, now that he has addressed several > > of these aforestated points (on *merit*, which you kept demanding) and > > shown some of your claims to be false, or at the very least debatable? > > I didn't find anything that changes the fundamental difference of > opinion we seem to have about pod lint tests. > > Karl claims that these tests are the equivalent of TODO and should be > kept for that reason. They are not. TODO tests warn but do not fail. > These tests fail. (Even *fixing* a known issue causes a fail.) The existing entries in t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat act as TODO tests. You'll only see failures if: a) you happen to fix an issue - great, you've fixed a TODO, regenerate the file to un-TODO it. This is similar to the way normal TODO tests, they don't fail the build, but they do appear in the test summary. b) you happen to introduce a new issue - either fix the issue (preferred), or regenerate the file to add a new TODO. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next