Re: [Perlunit-devel] (no subject)

[Adam S. <ad...@sp...>]

Piers Cawley (pdc...@bo...) wrote:
> Adam Spiers <ad...@sp...> writes:
> > A nice idea, but surely this wheel has already been invented in some
> > way?  Why not just do something idiotically simple like sticking the
> > test libraries in the `t' directory, and then put
> > 
> >   use lib 't';
> > 
> > in your t/*.t?  (Or better, hack Makefile.PL, or god forbid,
> > ExtUtils::Makemaker, so that a `make test' includes -It as an option
> > when running the tests.)
> 
> Well, it's sort of dependent on where you run the script from.
> Actually I'm more inclined to stick the *modules* in t/tlib (I'll
> explain why it has to be tlib in a minute) and then do 
> 
>     use lib 't/tlib', 'tlib';
> 
> So that you can run the tests from either the project root or from
> inside the t directory. It has to be tlib instead of lib to avoid
> using the files in lib/* rather than blib/*.

Yep, sounds good.  It doesn't look like there's any hook in MakeMaker
so we could persuade it to add these to @INC directly, hmph.  Although
doing it that way would break running the tests directly (isn't that
deprecated however?)

I can do this right now if you want me to.