Part of the reason I'm going all this work on Test::Harness is because
I'm going to need the new features for my next job (altruism isn't
dead, its just lying bleeding on the floor).
As such, I need the new Test::Harness *without* having to use
bleedperl. Judging from the discussion on perl-qa, others could use
it, too. I'd like to maintain it concurrently as a CPAN module. This
will require some minor backsliding of internal features to make it
compatible with 5.005 (mostly just s/our/use vars/) but that's no
biggie.
Hopefully having to maintain two core modules as CPANers as well will
encourage me to get along with that CPAN-to-core autoinstaller that
Jarko was asking for.
I'm not done with my changes yet, next thing to add in automatic test
coverage analysis. This is on hold pending shaping up
Devel::Coverage. Also, named tests need to be tackled.