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module prerequisites (Score:2)

by geoff (2013) <reversethis-{gro ... om} {ta} {ffoeg}> on 2004.10.11 8:59 (#35104) Homepage Journal

while I'm a guity as anyone for having done this in the past, I've not come to support the position that test modules should not be prerequisites a la PREREQ_PM despite the ubiquity of Test::More - there is a large difference between the test environment and the code itself, and making it impossible to build and install a module when test environment dependencies are missing just seems wrong.

but another solution to using a BEGIN block in each test file is to override the test target in the Makefile by creating your own MY::test subroutine in Makefile.PL. something similar to this [cpan.org] (but for Test::More, of course). while it doesn't protect against people running the test files by themselves, it give an appropriate response for people just following perl Makefile.PL && make && make test...

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