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

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Well, I did find the test script code more concise after migrating
> > > to Test.pm. However, we don't use much of its functionality yet,
> > > only rather basic things. Would it be that hard to roll our own
> > > Test.pm version that offers just the basic things we're currently
> > > using, maybe even by porting the original? Would make the switch
> > > to the system module easy, once we drop 5.004 compatibility (we
> > > won't keep that eternally, will we?)?
> > 
> > This is an ok route for me as well. I guess it is not too hard. 
> > 
> > Is this going to drop between the three of us? Jason are you volunteering
> > (I am aware jason you have done the lion's share of towards branch coding
> > so far...)
> 
> It's pretty mindless to make the corrections so I can do it while I'm
> waiting for some analysis to finish.  Can we just be sure that we are
> doing what seems to be the RIGHT thing.  I really don't want to break the
> build on 5.00404 so let's roll our own Test.pm with and ok() and skip()
> methods or backport (my vote) to the old way of sub test {}.  I'd put the
> Test module in t/Test.pm.  


I don't understand the backport sub test {} method - does this mean each
Test uses this routine? 

I trust your call in here...