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Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > From what I can tell, there are well over a dozen dual-lived > modules that incorporate test.pl into their distributions. > Rather than continuing this trend, I would like to propose > turning it into a module and dual-lifing it to CPAN. Nicholas Clark wrote: > Why are they using it, rather than something built from > Test::Builder? What does it offer that Test::Builder > derived modules don't? Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > In my case of dual-lifing threads, threads::shared, > Thread::Queue and Thread::Semaphore, it was because the > tests were already written to use test.pl. Thus, adding it > to the distribution was easier than rewriting all the tests. > > I would imagine that is also the case for the other > dual-lived modules that use test.pl, but their maintainers > could have other reasons. Anybody? Additionally, test.pl has certain functionality (e.g., fresh_perl() and watchdog()) not found in the Test::* modules.Thread Previous | Thread Next