On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote:
> In a github issue (https://github.com/schwern/test-more/issues/73), Michael
> Schwern argued that Test::Builder2 ought to be tested with a "completely
> unrelated test system. We have one, t/test.pl from the Perl core."
>
> I thought to myself, "How difficult could that be?" I vaguely remembered
> test.pl as being that
> "thing-that-existed-before-there-were-Test-More-and-Test-Harness." I
> downloaded Perl 5.14.2 to get it (and took that as the opportunity to build
> from source).
>
> Well, how to use t/test.pl is clearly not self-evident. It has no
> documentation, at least not in POD format. It has no --help or --usage
> statement that I could find. I typed each of the following commands:
>
> perl t/test.pl
> perl -d t/test.pl
> perl t/test [#supply path to one test in the Perl core distribution]
> perl -d t/test.pl [# supply path ...]
>
> ... and, essentially, nothing happened.
>
> Does anyone actAually use t/test.pl? What does it do? What is it for?
Most of the test of the Perl core use it, it is typically used as
«BEGIN { require '../test.pl' }». It's a bit primitive, but that's
exactly what you want in this kind of circumstances. Test.pm would be
another option, but by now test.pl seems actually more powerful.
Leon
