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To: Ron Blaschke <r...@rblasch.org>
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Subject: Re: [perl #35900] [PATCH] skip dynclasses, spawnw tests on win32
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From: l...@toetsch.at (Leopold Toetsch)

Ron Blaschke wrote:

[ skip dynclasses .t on Win32 ]

> Just my opinion on this: I'd rather see failures for things that need
> to be fixed.  Tests should only be skipped if they are not applicable
> on the current system, or the test busts everything.  Others may feel
> different, of course.

The old problem of skip, todo or let it fail.

Maybe we need pugs' test error classification scheme

> Ron

leo