Bootstripping

[Ovid]

I like to think of "bootstripping" as "bootstrapping when you shouldn't".  I've noticed that we are now testing against ourself.  Thus, when Andy's change to not strip extensions kicked in, "./Build test" and "make test" generates things like:

  t/harness.t ........... ok

Rather than:

  t/harness ............. ok

But prove -rl t/ works as expected.  I see comments in the Makefile.PL which explain that if we don't test against ourself, we end up loading a confused mixture of installed and new modules, but I don't feel that comfortable having Test::Harness self testing (I don't if an older version tests a "to be installed" version, of course).

Is there no way around this or am I being overly paranoid?

Cheers,
Ovid
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