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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:32:53 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
> 
> > So I'd suggest doing the following:
> 
> > 5) Rename t/ to testsuite/ so this doesn't look like some garbage 
> >    leftover.
> 
> 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.


Nicolas