Re: More business with $Test::Builder::Level in the TAP tests

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: More business with $Test::Builder::Level in the TAP tests
Date: 2021-10-08 08:06:04
Message-ID: 84CDB9AE-9A04-419A-A51F-E61A36AB3272@yesql.se
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> On 8 Oct 2021, at 09:51, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 09:28:04AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> LGTM. Maybe it should be added that it *must* be called before any Test::More
>> function is called, it's sort of self-explanatory but not everyone writing TAP
>> tests will be deeply familiar with Perl.
>
> I think that "must" is too strong in this context, as in some cases it
> does not really make sense to increment the level, when using for
> example a rather long routine that's labelled with one of the
> routine arguments like for pg_rewind. So I would stick with
> "should".

Fair enough.

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