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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
November 6, 2011 12:14
Subject:
Re: What does t/test.pl do?
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4EB6EA9A.4010806@pobox.com
On 2011.11.6 5:20 AM, James E Keenan wrote:
>> You're absolutely correct that it has no docs.  Some of this is to avoid using
>> the inline POD feature, in case it breaks while developing the core.  But it
>> could be documented either in comments, or POD in an __END__ block, or (the
>> safest) in a separate POD file.  Documenting it, even a little bit, would be
>> very helpful.
> 
> If I or someone else were to take that on, what should I treat as my starting
> point?  (It's my impression that the t/test.pl in Perl 5.14.2 differs from the
> one in the Test-Builder1.5 branch of your github test-more repository.)

The Perl core is upstream, work on that in blead.  test-more pushes all its
improvements upstream to the Perl core.


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