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Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> Setting PERL5LIB is not enough. One needs to *remove* the rest from
> @INC to be sure what libraries are tested.
True, as you might end up picking up some old stuff that was lying around
otherwise. Gah.
>>The problem with the existing "BEGIN { ... }" junk
>>is that it BREAKS any attempt to use PERL5LIB as it forcibly overwrites
>>@INC
>
> Not any more (in most scripts, my automated edit [intentionally] did
> not cover some other syntaxes used to modify @INC).
It would be nice to make this 100% consistent, and even better to say that
'all tests runs need to -MTestInit on the command-line'. That way if you
needed to do anything special you only have to modify TestInit.pm rather
than every individual test script.
> As you see, I disagree. IMO, this BEGIN block plays in an important
> role in *simplifying* debugging. As far as the boilerplate uses 4 or
> 5 "components" (such as the above @INC line), and the purpose of these
> components are explained in t/README, I see no problem.
As I said, I think factoring it out would be even better.
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Alan Burlison
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