On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Chris Nandor wrote:
> * globbing should work fine in MacPerl (via File::Glob), although <*/*>
> won't. I actually patched t/harness for that globbing problem (just
> changing all the foo/* to :foo:*), but I never included it. The main
> problem with t/harness is an insurmountable problem: some of the perl test
> scripts have call other perl scripts, and MPW can't handle three running
> processes at once. It can only handle two, with the help of ToolServer.
> So harness -> test script -> other test script breaks.
>
> So that's why I wrote MacPerlTests.cmd; it is a little shell (er, MPW :)
> script to run all the test and report the results. It has to be a shell
> script that runs each test, I think. That said, there is plenty of room
> for improvement in the current script. It is pretty dumb right now, but it
> gets the job done.
And VMS currently uses vms/test.com for similar reasons, but
I was surprised at how awkwardly t/harness was written. Thanks for the
confirmation.
Peter Prymmer
