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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:21:38PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Shouldn't the entire BEGIN block just be ripped out from all the tests
> rather than being modified? According to TestInit.pm:
>
> # This is a replacement for the old BEGIN preamble which heads (or
> # should head) up every core test program to prepare it for running.
> # Now instead of:
> #
> # BEGIN {
> # chdir 't' if -d 't';
> # @INC = '../lib';
> # }
> #
> # t/TEST will use -MTestInit. You may "use TestInit" in the test
> # programs but it is not required.
It is crucial that an individual test can be run without the
intervention of TEST:
./perl t/op/stat.t
to provide as small "Perl-related environment" as possible. E.g.,
consider line-ending bugs; if
./perl t/TEST op/stat.t
fails, I do not know whether I should debug t/TEST, or t/op/stat.t.
Hope this helps,
Ilya
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