[Melbourne-pm] Testing non-pel scripts with Test::Harness

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Simon Taylor wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> > Anyone been here before?  Anyone know Test::Harness well enough to tell
> > me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> You need to tell Test::Harness to stop using the '-w ' switch:
>
> perl -MTest::Harness -e
> '$Test::Harness::switches=undef;runtests("./a1.tcl")'
>

As I was trying the same with the Test::Harness-based "prove" and the 
Test::Run-based "runprove", I found out a problem with runprove. Apparently, 
it used to pass "-w" to the scripts even if no command line switches were 
specified on the command line. So I fixed this bug and now everything is 
peachy in its Subversion trunk.

Thanks for noting that.

BTW, it works because perl detects the sha-bang and run the alternative 
program specified there instead.

Oh and also look at:

http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/32092

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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