[Bioperl-l] Bioperl tests: Test, Test::Simple, Test::More?

[Lincoln Stein]

I think that we need to require at least 5.6.1. I don't want to test against
earlier versions.

Lincoln

On 9/5/06, Chris Fields <cjfields at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Torsten Seemann wrote:
> > >  >> Frankly, I think we should change that to v 5.8; it's been out for
> > >  >> over three years now.  perl 5.10 isn't too far off (let alone
> Perl6)
> > >  >> and perl 5.005, according to CPAN, is 8 years old.
> >
> > I remember that a while back the same kind of discussion took place on
> > the Parrot mailing list, http://www.parrotcode.org.
> > The result was to require 5.6.1 or later, as perl 5.6.0 wasn't very
> > stable.
> >
> > With 5.6.1 required, some cleanup could be done, e.g.
> > - Replace 'use vars qw( $dummy );' with 'our $dummy;'
> > - Get rid of IO::Scalar.
> >
> >
> > Just my $0.02,
> >
> >    Bernhard Schmalhofer
>
> I remember something about problems with v5.6.  So I agree here: at the
> very
> least, we should be using 5.6.1.  We probably should think about syntax
> updates as
>
> My point with requiring v. 5.8 is we can take advantage of several
> features
> present in v. 5.8 and not present in v. 5.6; Test::More was only one of
> them.  Torsten pointed out several features that were major changes
> between
> 5.6 and 5.8.  However, Hilmar also has a strong point about leaving those
> perl 5.6 users behind.
>
> Hilmar, do you have any suggestions on how we would poll users for their
> perl versions?  I suppose we could do something like that here if needed.
>
> Anyway, until we know more we could stick with requiring v. 5.6.1 and
> strongly recommending v. 5.8, and move to a 5.8 requirement later (maybe
> for
> bioperl v. 1.6).  As for Test::More, we could always include it as a
> requirement along with v. 5.6.1 if needed, or include it in
> Bundle::Bioperl.
> Or (most extreme) just include it in the distribution like we currently do
> with Test (not my favorite option, just more bioperl-core bloat).
>
> Chris
>
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