NAME¶

Test::TempDir - (DEPRECATED) Temporary files support for testing

VERSION¶

version 0.11

DEPRECATION NOTICE¶

There have been numerous issues found with this module, particularly with its use of locks (unreliable, may result in your entire $TMPDIR being deleted) and MSWin32 compatibility. As well, it uses Moose, which is nowadays considered to be heavier than necessary.

Test::TempDir::Tiny was written as a replacement. Please use it instead!

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Test::TempDir;
    my $test_tempdir = temp_root();
    my ( $fh, $file ) = tempfile();
    my $directory_scratch_obj = scratch();

DESCRIPTION¶

Test::TempDir provides temporary directory creation with testing in mind.

The differences between using this and using File::Temp are:

• If "t/tmp" is available (writable, creatable, etc) it's preferred over $ENV{TMPDIR} etc. Otherwise a temporary directory will be used.

  This is "temp_root"

• Lock files are used on "t/tmp", to prevent race conditions when running under a parallel test harness.
• The "temp_root" is cleaned at the end of a test run, but not if tests failed.
• "temp_root" is emptied at the beginning of a test run unconditionally.
• The default policy is not to clean the individual "tempfiles" and "tempdirs" within "temp_root", in order to aid in debugging of failed tests.

EXPORTS¶

SEE ALSO¶

• File::Temp,
• Directory::Scratch
• Path::Class

SUPPORT¶

Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Test-TempDir> (or bug-Test-TempDir@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-Test-TempDir@rt.cpan.org>).

There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at <http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-qa.html>.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#perl" on "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#perl-qa>.

AUTHOR¶

XXXX XXX'XX (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

CONTRIBUTORS¶

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE¶

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by XXXX XXX'XX (Yuval Kogman).

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.