Re: What does t/test.pl do?

2011-11-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2011.11.6 5:20 AM, James E Keenan wrote: You're absolutely correct that it has no docs. Some of this is to avoid using the inline POD feature, in case it breaks while developing the core. But it could be documented either in comments, or POD in an __END__ block, or (the safest) in a

What does t/test.pl do?

2011-11-05 Thread James E Keenan
In a github issue (https://github.com/schwern/test-more/issues/73), Michael Schwern argued that Test::Builder2 ought to be tested with a completely unrelated test system. We have one, t/test.pl from the Perl core. I thought to myself, How difficult could that be? I vaguely remembered

Re: What does t/test.pl do?

2011-11-05 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net wrote: In a github issue (https://github.com/schwern/test-more/issues/73), Michael Schwern argued that Test::Builder2 ought to be tested with a completely unrelated test system. We have one, t/test.pl from the Perl core. I

Re: What does t/test.pl do?

2011-11-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2011.11.5 5:23 AM, James E Keenan wrote: Does anyone actually use t/test.pl? What does it do? What is it for? test.pl has the classic meaning of pl meaning Perl Library not the bastardized Perl Executable. It's a simpler, parallel alternative to Test::More written using simpler Perl