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Re: [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
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Feb 1, 2011, 00:33 UTC
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Alex Budovski wrote:
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> >> 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.
> 
> 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?

Nicolas
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