Re: [Perlunit-devel] (no subject)

[Piers C. <pdc...@bo...>]

Adam Spiers <ad...@sp...> writes:

> 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?)

Dunno about deprecated, it can be damned useful.

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

Go to it.

-- 
Piers

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