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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 19:33:16 -0500 (EST)
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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

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