Test::Exception's functions are used in 136 test files. If you really want to avoid such a large chunk of the test suite, you might as well not run tests, or ignore the Test::Exception failures. I'm much happier demanding users to install Test::Exception. That we can be sure all the error conditions of Moose fail loudly, not quietly, on each user's machine.

That's not to say we add dependencies on a whim. I added, then quickly removed, a mandatory dependency on Test::Output. We were not using it in more than a few test files, so it was not worth the hassle of a new dependency. We know installing dependencies can suck.

Chris Prather is currently finishing up a blog post justifying each dependency. In general, we'd much rather depend on a solid, tested module than poorly implement half of its functionality.

In reply to Re^6: Modern Perl Programming Highs and Lows by Sartak
in thread Modern Perl Programming Highs and Lows by derby

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