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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:58:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Apache::TestRequest Doc Patch
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From: David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>
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On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 09:03  AM, Stas Bekman wrote:

> The main reason that the default docroot is t/ is because things like 
> logs/, conf/, etc are conveniently placed under t/. I'm not quite sure 
> why do you think that most people will want to have the ../t as the 
> serverroot. The only drawback of using t/ is in the need to adjust 
> @INC, to include ../t.

Yes, I noticed this. . cannot be the serverroot because then, if the 
module maintainer created conf and htdocs directories, they would be 
indexed by the CPAN indexer, and that's a bad thing. If they're in t/, 
the indexer ignores them.

But I'm not saying that I want ../t to be the ServerRoot. I'm saying 
that traditionally, the distribution root was the cwd for the test 
scripts in t/. Those are two different things, though I can see the 
convenience of thinking of them the same. At any rate, if t/ remains 
the default cwd for the test scripts as they are run, that should be 
documented, as it varies from what the module author usually expects -- 
including from the behavior of the old Apache::test.

Regards,

David

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