Re^2: Test::Prereq difficulties

Why does it need -MTest::More on the command line? It doesn't seem to be used in the module anywhere and even if it was, you could just do use Test::More inside the module. I tried it without and it worked fine.

While I'm at, why not add

sub import
{
  prereq_ok() if (caller())[1] eq '-';
}
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that way someone could just do

perl -MTest::Prereq
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Useful module (not overkill :)

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Re^3: Test::Prereq difficulties by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Mar 09, 2005 at 05:39 UTC
You're right: that Test::More is superfluous. I don't know what I was thinking then, but it doesn't make sense to me anymore. I've taken that out completely and fixed up the docs. I like the idea of running the test if the module is used from the command line, but it feels slightly odd and anti-DWIM to me. Maybe it won't feel so weird when I upload the next version. Thanks :) -- brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>	[reply]
Re^4: Test::Prereq difficulties by fergal (Chaplain) on Mar 09, 2005 at 11:55 UTC
It is a little odd. The only other place I've seen it used was in Parse::RecDescent. At the time I didn't understand how it was doing it and just assumed it was some deep Damien magic.	[reply]