[tapx-dev] Test::Harness "old vs new" issues

[Andy Armstrong]

On 26 Aug 2007, at 19:31, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> I'm going to import a frozen Test::Harness v2.64 into svn for purposes
> of benchmarking and etc.  It will be reference/Test-Harness-2.64/  
> and I
> think should be just the 'lib/' directory from that dist.

Good plan.

> Should we also package that and set no_index, or just put it in
> MANIFEST.skip?  That is, do we want to add tests which (ab)use the old
> code?

I don't think we need it for testing - just MANIFEST.SKIP I'd say.

> I'm also thinking lib/Test/Harness.pm needs a sort of kill switch.
>
>  $ENV{TAP_PARSER_NO_TEST_HARNESS} and die "you've got your \@INC  
> wrong";
>
> Thoughts?

How would that be used?

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net