From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:33:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101311930280.8580@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=uOhgnKxRpA0Vm2uSe+uznPwjRB-=2e81VTf-f@mail.gmail.com>

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.
> 
> 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