It would help if I sent this to the correct mailing list. Oops. Cheers, Ovid
--- On Mon, 20/10/08, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been doing some work integrating Perl 6 into vim > and now I'm trying to figure out how to run individual > Perl 6 tests. It appears that the incantation is along the > lines of: > > perl t/harness --verbosity 1 t/01-sanity/02-counter.t > > However, in digging further, I found this: > > perl t/harness --verbosity 1 t/02-test-pm/1-basic.t > > That starts off with "Statement not terminated > properly at line 87, near "(\"Hello > Wo"" and goes downhill from there. > > In fact, in reading through the Makefile, I don't see > that this gets run unless you do 'make testtest' > (added by particle back in Dec 2007). This doesn't > appear to be documented. Is it supposed to be run? Should > those Perl 6 tests be valid? > > Also, the way that t/00-parrot/06-op-inplace.t is written > forces the test numbers to be out of sequence. This causes > "make test" to fail, even though it's merely a > parse error. The Test.pm module appears to work (I've > only checked it superficially), so why not use that to make > some of these tests a bit easier to write? Are we trying to > avoid loading modules while testing core features? > > Cheers, > Ovid > -- > Buy the book - > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ > Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ > Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl > Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
