From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:58:57 GMT Subject: Re: [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests Message-ID: <201102010159.02694.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Alex Budovski wrote: > > > >> Nope.  't/' is the standard name for directory with "normal" tests, at > > >> least in Perl / CPAN land, where TAP comes from ('xt/' is for extra > > >> tests) > > > > > > So what?  It is not because Perl has set this horrible precedent that we > > > have to perpetuate it.  I personally never saw t used as a directory > > > name for tests before Git, and I'm not that young anymore unfortunately. CPAN is around 21000 distributions and 88000 modules. Most of those use 't/' for tests (default CPAN client to download and install modules runs those tests before installing module). > > The MySQL project (and its clones) also uses the t/ convention. > > OK, that makes for another one. > > Now what about those hundred counter-example projects _not_ using "t" > but something more descriptive? You mean those counter-example projects that use and include comprehensive tests, isn't it? Well, GCC uses 'testsuite/'. Mozilla uses 'testing/'. -- Jakub Narebski Poland