Re: TAP::Harness and -w
[email protected] (Mark Stosberg) Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:39:59 -0400
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On 09/17/2013 01:20 PM, chromatic wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 01:13:26 PM Mark Stosberg wrote:
>
>> An attempting-to-be-neutral summary would be very helpful.
>
> Pro of adding -w to test runs:
> - that's how Test::Harness has always worked, and people might be relying
> on that behavior
>
> Cons of adding -w to test runs:
> - you get warnings from dependencies (and their dependencies) because -w
> enables global action at a distance
> - using fatal warnings may cause your test suite to fail because of
> warnings in dependencies you don't directly control
Thank you.
I would rather TAP::Harness not enable warnings by default.
I would prefer to opt-in, rather than opt out.
Mark