Could you kindly shed some light on what you mean by a test suite?

As luck would have it I am currently trying to produce a gentle introduction to testing in Perl. You can read the work in progress on my scratchpad. (Update: This document has now been published as Basic Testing Tutorial). In essence a test suite is a set of code which verifies how some other code is expected to behave. Ordinarily this is barely little more than a sequence of subroutine or method calls with associated test data but in your case can be as simple as trying to compile a catalogue of scripts. Your Perl scripts will either compile or not but you can (presumably) attempt to compile them without running and thereby do no damage.

Are you saying a master/test Perl script should be used to appropriately augment @INC as each chip-building Perl script fails?

Not exactly. The test suite is there just to test and should be idempotent. You could, if you so wish, construct another script to perform the augmentation and then subseqently use the test script to assess its effectiveness. Test scripts (and suites) exist for a number of reasons but regression is not the least of them. If you adjust $PERLLIB to fix one script you must ensure that doing so does not break another. This is one of many areas where automated testing proves its worth.

In reply to Re^3: How to manage the transfer of large Perl environments from one network to another by hippo
in thread How to manage the transfer of large Perl environments from one network to another by fiddler42

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