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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:45:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4oeyjfnw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim9aNtFdwM5m-FB_LWX96es2DR_9mU3rGcV4dME@mail.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Fri\, 13 Aug 2010 21\:25\:10 +0000")

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> This is just an interesting datapoint, but Git's test suite currently
> crashes and burns if you don't have a perl in your $PATH, no matter if
> you've compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease or not. This has been the case
> since at least 2006, or v1.3.0-rc1~13^2~34.

I'd suggest you not to go overboard on this.  NO_PERL=YesPlease is
primarily about the deployment environment.  The person who is building
and packaging git may have perl on her development box.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-13 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-13 21:25 Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-13 22:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-13 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-08-13 22:56   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-13 23:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-13 23:44       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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