On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I spent a few hours synching up Test::Simple pretty much by hand.  A
> simple recursive diff won't produce a useful patch since there's some
> things in the core version that aren't in the CPAN version.  The most
> prevalent example being the test magic:
> 
>     BEGIN {
>         chdir 't' if -d 't';
>         @INC = '../lib';
>     }
> 
> This patch sets the PERL_CORE environment variable when running core
> tests.  This way, the CPAN version of any core module can look almost
> exactly like the core version.
> 
>     BEGIN {
>         if( $ENV{PERL_CORE} ) {
>             chdir 't' if -d 't';
>             @INC = '../lib';
>         }
>     }
> 
> This will make my life much, much, much easier.

Thanks, applied.  If this $ENV{PERL_CORE} scheme works we can ask the
other dual life citizens to do the same.  Will make the pumpkin's life
much, much, much easier.

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