From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ben Walton" <bdwalton@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:46:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526EBF09.8070200@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131028192216.GB4242@google.com>
Am 28.10.2013 20:22, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> The git build system supports a NO_PERL switch to avoid installing
> perl bindings or other features (like "git add --patch") that rely on
> perl on runtime, but even with NO_PERL it has not been possible for a
> long time to run tests without perl. Helpers such as
>
> nul_to_q () {
> "$PERL_PATH" -pe 'y/\000/Q/'
> }
>
> use perl as a better tr or sed and are regularly used in tests without
> worrying to add a PERL prerequisite.
>
> Perl is portable enough that it seems fine to keep relying on it for
> this kind of thing in tests (and more readable than the alternative of
> trying to find POSIXy equivalents). Update the test documentation to
> clarify this.
Thank you for the clarification!
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-28 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-18 21:17 [PATCH] Avoid broken Solaris tr Ben Walton
2013-06-18 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-28 9:02 ` Ben Walton
2013-10-28 9:13 ` [PATCH] Avoid difference in tr semantics between System V and BSD Ben Walton
2013-10-28 18:07 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-10-28 18:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-28 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-28 19:22 ` [PATCH] t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-28 19:46 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-10-28 19:54 ` Jeff King
2013-10-28 21:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-28 21:43 ` Ben Walton
2013-10-29 1:18 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] perl Jeff King
2013-10-29 1:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] use @@PERL@@ in built scripts Jeff King
2013-10-29 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-29 1:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] t: provide a perl() function which uses $PERL_PATH Jeff King
2013-10-29 1:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] t: use perl instead of "$PERL_PATH" where applicable Jeff King
2013-10-28 21:04 ` [PATCH] Avoid difference in tr semantics between System V and BSD Ben Walton
2013-10-28 21:12 ` Ben Walton
2013-10-28 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-28 21:40 ` Ben Walton
2013-10-28 21:43 ` Ben Walton
2013-10-28 21:43 ` Ben Walton
2013-10-30 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
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