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For testing, I'm still not sure if that is or isn't desireable. What if a user has their own private installation in PERL5LIB?

Then make test fails because the current setup will not work under taint. Which is better then letting CPAN install it, and then find out your program isn't going to work under taint.

The user has some options though. He can abandon the attempts to install it. He can install whatever is in his private installation in the standard directories. He can recompile perl to have his PERL5LIB part of the default @INC - perhaps by creating a private perl installation. He can make sure the directories of his PERL5LIB are put as -I arguments when the test scripts are called. He can modify the test scripts to include the relevant directories in @INC. He can modify the test scripts and remove the -T or -t options.

It's a delicate issue. Should you, or shouldn't you run tests with taint enabled? Not because the environment is untrusted, but because the purpose of tests is to show the module works correctly. And that would include running correctly with taint enabled.

Perl --((8:>*

In reply to Re^3: Why a taint flag on test files? by Perl Mouse
in thread Why a taint flag on test files? by xdg

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