09-07-2011
Cygwin is an okay teaching or porting tool, but fundamentally it's just not Linux. It's not a backdoor, it runs inside Windows, and has to do things the normal Windows way. A sudo for windows doesn't make a lot of sense when logins are graphical in nature.
There's multitudes of things about Windows which just don't fit the UNIX model and refuse to be worked around -- like the login system. And the things in Cygwin which do work, you might sometimes be surprised just how much work is necessary for some really fundamental UNIX things. Windows doesn't even have fork(), for crying out loud.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
test::data
Data(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Data(3pm)
NAME
Test::Data -- test functions for particular variable types
SYNOPSIS
use Test::Data qw(Scalar Array Hash Function);
DESCRIPTION
Test::Data provides utility functions to check properties and values of data and variables.
Functions
Plug-in modules define functions for each data type. See the appropriate module.
How it works
The Test::Data module simply imports functions from Test::Data::* modules. Each module defines a self-contained function, and puts that
function name into @EXPORT. Test::Data defines its own import function, but that does not matter to the plug-in modules.
If you want to write a plug-in module, follow the example of one that already exists. Name the module Test::Data::Foo, where you replace
Foo with the right name. Test::Data should automatically find it.
BUGS
I'm not a very good Windows Perler, so some things don't work as they should on Windows. I recently got a Windows box so I can test things,
but if you run into problems, I can use all the patches or advice you care to send.
SEE ALSO
Test::Data::Scalar, Test::Data::Array, Test::Data::Hash, Test::Data::Function, Test::Builder
SOURCE AVAILABILITY
This source is in Github:
http://github.com/briandfoy/test-data/tree/master
AUTHOR
brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2002-2009 brian d foy. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.2 2009-02-12 Data(3pm)