Re: Topics currently in the Stalled category

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 04:15:12AM +0100, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > We could improve the test in t5801, but it is nice to let people on such
> > systems test it, as well. And the infrastructure might be useful if we
> > ever acquire more bash scripts.
> >
> > There's a fair bit of boilerplate, but I think this squashable patch
> > would do it:
> 
> Yeah, but I wonder what's the point of installing this script, it's
> mostly for testing and reference, and to add a whole category for that
> seems like overkill.

There's no point in installing it; I just didn't make the effort to
avoid doing so (note that testpy and testsvn are also installed, which
are in the same boat; it might make sense to split them all out like we
do for $TEST_PROGRAMS).

I agree it's an annoying amount of boilerplate, but it seems simpler
cognitively to me for it to behave as the other SCRIPT_* builds than to
do something simple but inconsistent.

I do not care enough to argue about it. We need to do something to fix
the impending test breakage on systems like Solaris. I have posted the
patch to handle BASH_PATH, so do what you want.

-Peff