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Re: I made t/podcheck.t less sensitive and fixed various pod issues

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Tony Cook
Date:
June 12, 2013 23:48
Subject:
Re: I made t/podcheck.t less sensitive and fixed various pod issues
Message ID:
20130612234757.GC17252@mars.tony.develop-help.com
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:35:57PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> In that, this has all become massively distracting from what were real issues
> being raised - what is the purpose of aggressively testing for something that
> isn't being actively resolved?

I saw the purpose as testing that new POD issues weren't being
introduced.

> Which does need to be resolved. The status quo of "just adding to the
> exception list" is not good. And I think that everyone will agree on *that*
> aspect of things.

Just adding to the exception list is similar to making a change that
breaks perl and then changing the tests that broke into TODO tests.

Tony
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