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Re: Should a CPAN module list Test:: modules as dependencies?by adrianh (Chancellor) |
on Jul 20, 2004 at 13:54 UTC ( [id://375921]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Just to offer a contrary opinion :-) My personal rule of thumb is to include as prerequisites all test modules that are needed to test module functionality, and leave as optional test modules that are used to test non-essential things like documentation, etc. This is for a few reasons:
Note: I'm not saying that people should be forced to run the test suite. It's always possible to download and install manually, and ignoring test-specific prerequisites is fairly simple in almost all cases. However I think that the fact that CPAN tests by default before it installs is one of the reasons that Perl's module system works so well - so I prefer to have maximal tests by default. Another option that you didn't mention is to distribute a copy of the modules you need with your distribution (say in t/lib). This can work well, but I tend to avoid it myself because it increases the distribution size and you have to track bug-fixes / patches in third party modules.
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