in reply to temporary files in .t scripts

You've had two recommendations for File::Temp. Consider this a third - I use tempfiles in the test suites for DBM::Deep, PDF::Template, and Excel::Template. The common denominator is that I have a t/common.pm which manages the creation and destruction. You will probably want something similar.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: temporary files in .t scripts
by esobchenko (Beadle) on Mar 25, 2008 at 09:19 UTC
    You'll laugh: I need a tempfile for DBM::Deep which is used by default in my module. :-) Thanks for your answer.
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      Oooh. What does your module do? What do you use DBM::Deep for? Inquiring minds want to know!
      My criteria for good software:
      1. Does it work?
      2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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        I'm working on small library that provides persistence for Perl objects. Persistence is implemented by abstract CRUD methods that need to be overridden in subclass. I use DBM::Deep as default data store in module and tests, however I use PostgreSQL and Amazon S3 for production.
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