Test Script Best-Practices

2006-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Thalhammer
Greetings, I've noticed that CPAN authors use a variety of techniques to manipulate the run-time environment in their test scripts. Usually, it involves changing directories and/or altering @INC. This one seem pretty popular: BEGIN { if($ENV{PERL_CORE}) { #What is PERL_CORE?

Re: Test Script Best-Practices

2006-01-24 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:53, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: Greetings, I've noticed that CPAN authors use a variety of techniques to manipulate the run-time environment in their test scripts. Usually, it involves changing directories and/or altering @INC. This one seem pretty popular:

Re: Test Script Best-Practices

2006-01-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Jeffrey Thalhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Should a test script have a shebang? What should it be? Any flags on that? It's not at all neccessary, but IMHO it is good form; it's a surefire way for anything else (HTTP server, IDEs, etc) to figure out that you're actually a perl script and do

Re: Test Script Best-Practices

2006-01-24 Thread David Golden
Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: * Should a test script have a shebang? What should it be? Any flags on that? I often see -t in a shebang. One downside of the shebang, though, is that it's not particularly portable. As chromatic said, with prove it's not really necessary. (prove -t) *

Re: Test Script Best-Practices

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:25:44PM -0500, David Golden wrote: Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: * Should a test script have a shebang? What should it be? Any flags on that? I often see -t in a shebang. One downside of the shebang, though, is that it's not particularly portable. As chromatic