I was just skimming the announcement of Parrot 0.4.1, and found this...
Parrot 0.4.1 changes and news
- Installation: 'make install' is using standard locations now
(/usr/local is the default --prefix)
- Produce static and shared libraries on some systems
- Configure system rearragement
- OS pmc started (mkdir,cd,cwd,rm,umask,stat)
- Shootout examples
- Test files are now testable with 'prove'
- Smoke (and smokej) outputs progress
- PIR supports: I = A < B (>,<=,>=,==,!=)
- Add support for octal number constants
- partcl updates:
- almost finish [string]; start [file]
- add build tool for generating inline'd tcl builtins from templates.
- Jako updates: NCI, subroutines, global variables and constants all work.
It still tickles me that people find prove such a valuable tool. If you don't know what prove is, here are some slides from a lightning talk I did to tell you more.
Also, from prove --man:
prove has a number of advantages over make test when doing development.
make test. That's fine for module distributions, but it's
suboptimal for a test/code/debug development cycle.
prove t/live/ t/master.t checks every *.t in t/live,
plus t/master.t.
-v option to see the raw output from the tests.
To do this with make test, you must set HARNESS_VERBOSE=1 in
the environment.
-T runs your tests under perl -T, and -t runs them
under perl -t.
--shuffle option to try to excite problems
that don't show up when tests are run in the same order every time.
prove --woman