Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Detecting a running ToolServer?

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
> The perl test suite etc. doesn't need to care about the MacPerl app, only
> the perl tool, but if you are looking to make modules installable via a
> generic interface for MacPerl users, it should be able to work from the
> MacPerl app, and without ToolServer, else it won't really help much, since
> most users won't have ToolServer, let alone MPW.

This is for Module::Build's test target which uses Test::Harness which runs
each perl test program in a seperate process.  AFAIK there's just no way
to do that on MacPerl without ToolServer and I can't think of another way to
run tests.

Except for a crazy idea.  Write an AppleScript program which acts like
Test::Harness.  Have that run each perl program in turn and interpret the
output.  ./Build test then just calls that AppleScript program and quits (or
the AppleScript quits any running MacPerl before trying to run the tests).

Is it just stupid enough to work?


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