Re: best practices for temporary files during testing

2008-06-08 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Sat, Jun 07 2008, David Golden wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Laco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Directory::Scratch..and it cleans up after itself. > > Module::Install-- (and a somewhat dated one, too) Module::Install with > auto_install-- Yeah, auto_install needs to d

Re: Non-standard use of Devel::Cover

2008-06-08 Thread James E Keenan
Rick Fisk wrote: Has anyone been successful with producing meaningful coverage reports when the test files are in a non-standard location? Any help would be appreciated. If you make judicious use of the command-line options to cover, as well as to Devel::Cover's own options, you can probably

Re: best practices for temporary files during testing

2008-06-08 Thread James E Keenan
Gabor Szabo wrote: Should I just use File::Tempdir ? I haven't yet explored File::Tempdir. But File::Temp has the advantages of being core, having both functional and OO interfaces, and widely used. We use it extensively in testing Parrot -- and just tonight I converted one case where