I'm working on Test::Builder 0.48 and here's some relatively major changes I'm putting in. Some advance warning and a chance for folks to convince me otherwise.
* Test::Harness will no longer be optional. Currently, the tests do not require a Test::Harness upgrade. They simply skip over anything that requries T::H 2.0. This has caused a lot of problems lately with botched and shadowed T::H installs and people installing Test::More without realizing T::H wasn't really upgraded and tests which have 'no_plan' not working. The real reason I made the T::H upgrade optional was it made it easier to test against older perls. I could just run the test suite against, for example, a clean 5.5.3 without having to dirty the installation by installing T::H 2.0. I've figured a way around this with MakeMaker hackery. A future version of Test::Harness will include a post-install check to make sure it actually got installed properly and isn't being shadowed, so it will help the problem from that end. * threads will no longer be loaded by default. Currently, Test::Builder loads threads.pm if available. It was done this way because otherwise one would have to remember to load threads before Test::More (or other T::B based module) in order for it to work properly. Unfortunately, this makes it impossible to test unthreaded code with Test::More when perl is built with threads as I recently found out while trying to test threads::shared in its disabled state. As I'm going for maximum flexibility, and loading threads.pm by default makes a whole class of tests impossible, threads.pm will no longer be loaded by default. 5.8.0's threads are giving me serious headaches. When 5.8.1 comes out I might drop support for 5.8.0's threads just so I can remove a large volume of work-around code. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One List context isn't dangerous. Misquoting Gibson is dangerous. -- Ziggy
