Hi,
is it possible with Test::Harness and MakeMaker to pass arguments to my test
scripts? I think it's not but I just want to check for sure. The module I'm
working on is getting a new "optimised" mode so I'd like to be able to run
all the tests twice, once with and once without the optimiser.
One possibilty is to have a file called run_opt which is something like
#! /usr/bin/perl
($script, $optimise) = $0 =~ /(.*?)(_opt)?/;
system($script, "otimise");
then do
ln -s run_opt script1_opt
ln -s run_opt script2_opt
ln -s run_opt script3_opt
ln -s run_opt script4_opt
But that's a bit of a pain. What will happen to the symbolic links on non-unix
platforms? I suppose you could do a cp rather a ln -s.
Anyway, it'd be nice to be able to somehow tell Test::Harness to run all these
scripts multiple times in these different ways. Any chance of that happening?
How about allowing run_tests to accept not just strings but also objects like
{
script_name => 'script1',
environments => [
{
perl_switches => '-w -MOptimise',
arguments => [1, 'wibble'],
env_vars => { BLAH => 1 },
setup_script => 'setup.pl',
teardown_script => 'teardown.pl',
},
{
perl_switches => '-w',
arguments => [0, 'wobble'],
env_vars => { BLAH => 2 },
}
]
}
I'm not that bothered about env_vars and setup/teardown stuff but the switches
and args would be nice. I'll make a patch if there's any chance it would be
accepted,
F
