Re: TAP::Harness and -w

[email protected] (Mark Stosberg) Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:39:59 -0400
Newsgroups perl.qa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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