[Bioperl-l] test suite upgrade

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:

> A Smarter test suite and some code corrections to make perl 5.00404 happy
> have been checked in.  
> 
> Please checkout the live version and give it a try.  
> 
> Notes: 
> 
> - This involved copying Test.pm version 1.15 I believe, removing the line
>   that required Test::Harness of a certain version (which won't install on
>   5.00404) and doing some fun use lib stuff in the BEGIN block of t test.  
>   Unfortunately my first hope of just pushing the 't' dir on the @INC
>   stack did not work under 5.00404 - it was not being recognized.  I'm not
>   sure if that was not available in earlier versions of perl or what.  At
>   ant rate it was solved by our good friend eval...

Jason is becoming THE MAN for this release.

I'll check this out and report back. Awesome Jason!

> 
> BEGIN {     
>     # to handle systems with no installed Test module
>     # we include the t dir (where a copy of Test.pm is located)
>     # as a fallback
>     eval { require Test; };
>     if( $@ ) {
>         use lib 't';
>     }
>     use Test;
>     plan tests => 35 }
> 
> All new test modules should follow this format or they won't be able to
> use Test.pm on platforms with Test.pm not installed.  
> 
> - The LiveSeq test is still not working, but that's probably because I
>   haven't really dug much to find out why it is failing.
> 
> - I get strange errors (the ever cryptic 'dubious' message) in 5.00404
>   when exit is called in the BEGIN block which is necessary for tests
>   where all the necessary modules are not installed on the system.
> 

I've worked around this one before. I'll see what I can do here...


> - Things to deal with platform compatibility have not been addressed
>   (alarm still called,index.t).  I tried to work on the Index.t problem
>   but didn't get the general solution to work (because we can't depend on
>   File::Spec to be installed,grrr) so I will have to probably rely on the
>   suggested fix by Shailesh.
> 
> -Jason
> 
> Jason Stajich
> jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
> Center for Human Genetics
> Duke University Medical Center 
> http://www.chg.duke.edu/ 
> 
> 
> 
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