Tonight I uploaded Test::Deep 0.108. The changes made are very small, and
should not affect anyone other than some edge cases in which it should be
faster.
Many of the open bugs relate to unfortunately named exports like "blessed" and
"isa," and to behavior that should probably change but would break existing
scripts. I'd like to improve the way in which exports are organized and
generated.
"use Test::Deep" would be equivalent to "use Test::Deep -v0" which would be the
current set of exports. The new set of catch-all behavior, mostly the same but
with "blessed" and "isa" renamed would be "-v1". Other exports could be
grouped in other ways to get things like "use Test::More -objects, -containers"
or something along those lines. Using Sub::Exporter would make this very easy,
and would allow a lot of other tricks like getting all the exports with a
prefix on the names. ("td_bag" instead of "bag" for example.) I'm not sure
whether there will be general chafing at the new prereq, though.
Another common complaint is the lack of clear docs about what is and isn't
exported. I'd like to get the export situation cleared up before documenting
everything, so this is more or less tabled.
Finally, there's a bug that cmp_deeply($have, $want) should compare both parts
of a dualvar. I think this is a mistake, and am likely to reject it with
alternate ways to write that test. I am open to argument now, but I think it's
pretty likely that I'll follow through with this plan.
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rjbs
