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/'.
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Jakub Narebski
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