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From:
David E. Wheeler
Date:
November 15, 2011 13:24
Subject:
Re: Dual life t/test.pl?
Message ID:
C8EC9F93-7430-4763-B117-042467EEDD62@kineticode.com
On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:

>> Other than people writing test modules, who would find it useful?
> 
> FWIW, threads and threads::shared use test.pl in their test
> suites.  This seems to be historical and related to the fact
> that older versions of Test::More didn't work will with
> threads.  However, changing to use Test::More may be
> undesirable because it means testing threads using a module
> that needs to support threads testing.

The DBI uses it, too, for performance testing, I believe.

  http://svn.perl.org/viewvc/modules/dbi/trunk/test.pl?view=markup

Best,

David


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