[Bioperl-l] Please do not commit without testing

[Chris Fields]

On Nov 23, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Chris Fields wrote:
>> ...
> [snip]
>> However, the various changes using Module::Build need to be well- 
>> documented both in CVS docs and on the wiki.  Your latter example  
>> ('./Build test --test_files t/test.t --verbose') is nowhere to be  
>> found.
>
> I posted to the list about it on the 17th in thread 'Testing with  
> Build.PL'. Where would you suggest a good place on the wiki would  
> be to mention something like that?

The mail list isn't the best place to document this; very few people  
(including developers) will take the time to go back digging through  
old posts except as a last resort.  Hence these need to be well- 
documented AND easily accessible.  Relevant changes need to be made  
everywhere that testing or using make/nmake is mentioned in CVS or  
the wiki.  For the testing case I raised, maybe adding something to  
the various INSTALL docs and the FAQ would be a good start.

chris

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign