Test::S...Helpers(3)

💖 Test::S...Helpers(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is Test::S...Helpers(3) — a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and it's literally the manual for Test::Smoke::Util::FindHelpers, which is a whole module full of little functions that go hunt down Helpers for you (that's modules and bins, no cap) 🔍✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Test::Smoke::Util::FindHelpers — Functions to help find Helpers (modules/bins) 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, this is the whole vibe:

use Test::Smoke::Util::FindHelpers ':all';

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🎀 EXPORT_OK/EXPORT_TAGS 🎀

here's the full roster of what can come out to play, no gatekeeping:

has_module whereis
get_avail_tar get_avail_patchers
get_avail_posters get_avail_sync get_avail_mailers
get_avail_w32compilers
get_avail_vms_make

:all

and yeah, :all is exactly what it sounds like — the whole friend group, all at once 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

⭐ has_module($module)

Retuns true if the named module could be "requiere"d. (yes that's how it's written in here and we are respecting the source material 🫡)

like — it goes and checks if that module is actually, y'know, there. true if yes, false if it's giving ghost town 👻

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⭐ get_avail_patchers

Returns a list of available patch programs: gpatch, npatch, patch 🩹

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⭐ get_avail_posters

Return a list of available modules/programs that can be used to HTTP/POST a message. That's HTTP::Tiny, LWP::UserAgent, curl 📮

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⭐ get_avail_sync

Returns a list of available syncer modules/programs: git, rsync 🔄

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⭐ get_avail_tar

Returns a list of available untar/ungzip modules/programs: Archive::Tar/...Zlib, tar/gzip 📦

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⭐ tar_fmt

Returns the format with wich to gunzip and untar. that's either:

gzip -cd %s | tar -xf -

or:

tar -xzf %s

pick your fighter 🥊

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⭐ get_avail_mailers

Returns a list available mail modules/programs. 📧

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⭐ get_avail_w32compilers

Returns a list of compilers found. (Win32 specific, so Windows girlies this one's for you 💻)

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⭐ get_avail_vms_make

Return a list of "make" programs installed on the VMS system. 🛠️

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

(c) MMII - MMXV, The Test-Smoke Team <abeltje@cpan.org> 💌

See Test::Smoke for full acknowlegements. 🙏

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and that's the whole page bestie, every single function accounted for, nothing skipped, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨

perl v5.42.0 · 2025-07-25 · Test::S...Helpers(3) — mwah, ily, go find your helpers 🫶💖🎀🦋🌸