t/sample-tests/switches

[Ovid]

--- Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:

> Ovid originally wrote t/sample-tests/switches and the tests that use 

> it. I'm not sure what the intention of the test is or whether it's  
> still valuable. It seems that the condition it tests isn't something 
> we can rely on.

Reading through there and trying to remember what I did.  I believe
that the intent was to ensure that if I did this:

  prove -Mstrict t/foo.t

That TAP::Parser would get called with "switches => ['-Mstrict']" as
one of the arguments.  This would let people pass switches directly to
the Perl executable invoking a test without setting PERL5OPT, but we
don't appear to actually expose this in prove.  So I think the test is
important, but the functionality it's designed to test isn't made
available for people.  Oops.

Of course, I could be misremembering all of this.

Cheers,
Ovid

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