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Re: A wishlist for CPAN



gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at> writes:

> * Don't use conditions in tests that test for the existence of author
>   specic files or settings (" unless -d '.svn'" or "unless $username eq
>   'timbo'")

Specifically, don't do this unless that's being used as a criteria for
skipping a test that's really meaningless outside of the author's
environment.  (I do have a few tests in modules that depend on local
infrastructure to run and hence are skipped if they're not run by me.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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