perl

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed,

awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter. If your script requires some Perl modules, you can install them with "perl(MODULE)" where "MODULE" is a name of required module. E.g. install "perl(Test::More)" to make Test::More Perl module available. If you need all the Perl modules that come with upstream Perl sources, so called core modules, install perl-core package. If you only need perl run-time as a shared library, i.e. Perl interpreter embedded into another application, the only essential package is perl-libs. Perl header files can be found in perl-devel package. Perl utils like "splain" or "perlbug" can be found in perl-utils package.

libtest-harness-perl

module to run standard Perl test scripts with statistics

Test::Harness is a Perl module usually invoked by Perl's test systems, namely Test::Simple, Test::More and those based on Test::Builder. This module is already included as part of Perl's core distribution, so this package is only beneficial when newer features or bug fixes are required. For details, please see Bug #383517.

perl-Test-Harness-1

statistics

perl-Test-Harness

This package allows tests to be run and results automatically

aggregated and output to STDOUT. Although, for historical reasons, the Test-Harness distribution takes its name from this module it now exists only to provide TAP::Harness with an interface that is somewhat backwards compatible with Test::Harness 2.xx. If you're writing new code consider using TAP::Harness directly instead.