| Subject: | Tests Take a Very Long Time To Run / Should Be Made Optional |
The installation currently takes nearly 3 minutes. When using `cpanm' you can't even see whether or not the installation hanged. This is especially problematic when distributing your code to users who might not be overly familiar with Perl.
I would suggest that long-running tests would be made optional, and run only when EXTENDED_TESTING env var is set (following the Lancaster Consensus: http://bit.ly/1OFzrd1)
The 20453 tests in t/70_rt.t seem to be all about testing regressions. I don't think that's needed for all users. There are likely other tests that could be made optional as well.
Here's my experience of the install on an average box:
$ time cpanm Text::CSV_XS
--> Working on Text::CSV_XS
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/Text-CSV_XS-1.20.tgz ... OK
Configuring Text-CSV_XS-1.20 ... OK
Building and testing Text-CSV_XS-1.20 ... OK
Successfully installed Text-CSV_XS-1.20
1 distribution installed
real 2m49.607s
user 2m45.866s
sys 0m1.568s
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Cheers,
ZZ [ https://metacpan.org/author/ZOFFIX ]