Bug #130983 for Test-Harness: prove does not honour -I option when searching for modules (-M) and/or plugins (-P)

Wed Nov 13 03:58:44 2019 SVW [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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prove does not honour -I option when searching for modules (-M) and/or plugins (-P)

I have developed a helper module that is local to one of my perl projects. The helper module should be executed once before all my tests. I have used prove's -M option. I have stored the helper module in a dedicated directory called tlib/. Unfortunately prove does not find the helper module if I use -Itlib. It would be create if the -I option could be honoured by prove while searching for modules and plugins. PS: From my perspective the documentation should be improved slightly: load() is called for modules (-M) too and it is not completely clear when to use the module (-M) and when to use the pluging (-P) approach. Kind regards Sven

Wed Nov 13 12:20:17 2019 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2019-11-13 00:58:44, SVW wrote: Show quoted text

> I have developed a helper module that is local to one of my perl > projects. The helper module should be executed once before all my > tests. I have used prove's -M option. I have stored the helper module > in a dedicated directory called tlib/. Unfortunately prove does not > find the helper module if I use -Itlib. It would be create if the -I > option could be honoured by prove while searching for modules and > plugins.

The -M option is used by prove itself, not by the process used for each individual test. You can use PERL5OPT to get that information into the test processes.

Wed Nov 13 12:20:17 2019 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Nov 22 03:36:39 2019 SVW [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Am Mi 13. Nov 2019, 12:20:17, ETHER schrieb: Show quoted text

> On 2019-11-13 00:58:44, SVW wrote:

> > I have developed a helper module that is local to one of my perl > > projects. The helper module should be executed once before all my > > tests. I have used prove's -M option. I have stored the helper module > > in a dedicated directory called tlib/. Unfortunately prove does not > > find the helper module if I use -Itlib. It would be create if the -I > > option could be honoured by prove while searching for modules and > > plugins.

> > The -M option is used by prove itself, not by the process used for > each individual test. You can use PERL5OPT to get that information > into the test processes.

Thanks ETHER. Although your feedback did not convince me completely, it has brought me to another idea. I have simply configured -Mlib=tlib before -MMyPluginModule in the .proverc file.