John Porter wrote:
>
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
> >
> > 1) why extract it if it could potentially be used in place
> > 2) if it cannot be used in place, then why bundle it
>
> I tend to agree. If they're stored as podified sections, and
> get extracted to files, then pod has merely been (mis-)used as
> some kind of shar.
What about a compromise?
Imagine a special "inline_tests.t" which goes through every
.pm in the distribution's "lib" directory, and runs every
in-line test it finds directly (WITHOUT extracting it to a .t).
All we'd need is one; it would be general-purpose, and you
could just download it from CPAN and stick it into the
t/ directory of any distribution.
For more flexibility, the test could look at an inline_tests.t.list
file in the cwd to determine *which* .pm's should be tested.
Best of Both Worlds. :-)
Eryq
