[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, Jason Stajich wrote:
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> > > 
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> > > 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...
> 
> Stupid me, I meant to vote for a rolled our own Test.pm with ok and skip
> methods.
> 
> The other option is to go back to what we had which was to defined a 
>  method test() in every .t file.  But that is sort of dumb to copy and
> paste that method into every t file.  We should at a minimum make one file
> that has the necessary method(s) - why not mimic Test.pm in this case with
> ok() and skip()...

Sounds good to me. I can help at least with the Testing of the test suite,
and possibly some of the leg work (not tonight... about to get dinner...)

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> Jason Stajich
> jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
> Center for Human Genetics
> Duke University Medical Center 
> http://www.chg.duke.edu/ 
> 
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