[Bioperl-l] Bioperl Makefile.PL and testing

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Chad Matsalla wrote:

> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> When Makefile.PL went from version 1.48 to 1.49 on 20021214 (Hi Ewan!)
> the ability to run tests like this: make test_<test_name> went away. I
> know what changed, but before I 'fix' this, I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a reason that should go away?

It may over-run the Makefile syntax. Now I think I ahve solved the syntax 
issues (at least, it is working for me now) I think we put it back in. 


> 2. Can it stay? It is one of the most useful things around.
> 

I guess so. Needs testing with the large number of modules. Would you like 
to put in back and commit?

> Let's say I am working on Bio::SeqIO::phd.pm and I know that the changes
> will affect the operations of Bio::SeqIO::scf.pm in an acute way. I
> would rather not run the tests with 'perl t/phd.t; perl t/scf.pm'
> because that will not make the actual modules.
> 
> So I do the following:
> make test_phd test_scf
> 
> and everything magically works out.
> 
> I just wondered if many other people test this way.
> 
> Chad Matsalla
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