[Bioperl-l] Test.pm does not ship with 5.004 patch level 4

[Jason Stajich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ewan Birney" <birney@ebi.ac.uk>
To: "Jason Stajich" <jason@chg.mc.duke.edu>
Cc: <bioperl-l@bioperl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Test.pm does not ship with 5.004 patch level 4


> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:
>
> > I was hoping no one would notice... ;)
> >
> > I found this out last week then I tried to install Test.pm on a 5.00404
> > system and it won't install requires at least 5.00504.  This means our
> > test suite doesn't work under 5.00404. That is not good...
> >
> > grrrr... not wanting to back port all the Test.pm dependacies... Do we
> > have to roll our own replacement and have that be included?
> >
>
> <sigh>
>
> this is a potential SHOW STOPPER. time to think about this...
>
> We have to either
>
>   (a) jettison 5.00404 compatibility OR
>
>   (b) back-port test suite (sorry jason) OR
>
>   (c) roll own replacement
>
I can back port if necessary,
I'd rather us have roll our own t/Test.pm that duplicates Test.pm
functionality that we use though.
I do rather like no having to keep track of which test number I am at so
adding a test to the middle of the pack doesn't involve upping the ones that
follow by 1.

> I don't like any of these. Comments?
>
>
> (PS - I am not a big, huge, boy this is really making my life easier fan
> of Test.pm --- what is wrong with print "ok 2\n";. I don't need a module
> for this!)
>
>
>
>
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