rra-c-util 5.3

The lack of journal updates recently is due to a lot of work chaos combined with getting obsessed with various leisure activities (to blunt the work stress) that don't result in public writing. Normalcy seems to be slowly returning, but it will be a while yet.

This release of my collection of utility libraries and scripts only has updates to some of the Perl test infrastructure.

Testing Perl scripts for strictness, warnings, and syntax errors now supports listing a set of modules required for meaningful script testing. This converts failures to skipped tests if the reason for the syntax check failure is that a required module is not installed.

This release also works around two problems with Perl::Tidy 20130922 related to its new log (mis)feature. Perl::Tidy now attempts to create a log file in the current directory whenever it runs unless this is explicitly turned off, and the Perl::Critic policy doesn't know to do that. (Debian bug #742004) I now unlink that file if it exists, after the test completes, and skip the Perl critic testing if the source directory is read-only (since failure to create the log file is treated by Perl::Tidy as a fatal error).

You can get the latest version from the rra-c-util distribution page.