| Subject: | spell checking in the test suite considered harmful |
Carp-Diagnostics checks the spelling of the POD in a test file. That's a
valuable idea to do on the developer's box but not very likely to
succeed on the user's, is it? How many have 'spell' not installed? And
if they have it installed, is their language configured for English? And
even then, how many have added "Conway" to their dictionaries?
Carp-Diagnostics has only three fails at
http://cpantesters.perl.org/show/Carp-Diagnostics.html. This is due to
the fact that the dependency on Test-Dependencies prohibits sending
reports. Test-Dependencies has close to 100% fails (see ticket #31906).
You cannot change that but be prepared when T:D is fixed and get rid of
the spell check or make it more tolerant against failures.
Best regards,