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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:32:32PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 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.
You can do
./perl -MTestInit op/stat.t
I for one would be really happy if the ever expanding set of repeated
code necessary at the top of dual-life module tests could be reduced.
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