From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:30:25 -0700 Message-ID: <7vvd7ehyzy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v4oeyjfnw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 14 01:30:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ok3hw-0000fu-9p for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:30:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756074Ab0HMXaf convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:30:35 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:53493 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754313Ab0HMXae convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:30:34 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F24CD650; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:30:33 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=oIN1hIhRTY7O jNZHRKLhLBSW/tw=; b=m4iQdrKYGpso4vmgqwlCgawjk2zAqkk29VD4S5VivYUZ 7RSFWINmbvTfFQPpN64kQp1xcS+iWLL0sbQUyH3M7uQD9UF9vXSm23CWgZMg67l9 dwQsVgMseUuolExTRNVzV7P3SxwZc/ccqIt5CNW2vGKOXyn5KuFBjktB3osWq/c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=XX0573 +AJBJ5ujsmDK83FyLyI7u93eHPrIPawv/yQkX8hDl6kDyyHuJEItzzXGjcKMA3Cs GRonaxZqFPhQWG/khLNZJ3Ol7BUjlAfiBogdvqRhledykz2iPSbD9vRPNRTGciU2 28ozPpPpMnIanvgUR/cd24JERRCGbTVLvxe1g= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94517CD64F; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:30:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.252.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 937C7CD64E; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:30:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?B?IsOGdmFyIEFybmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Fri\, 13 Aug 2010 22\:56\:50 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C2FA3480-A732-11DF-8D7A-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason writes: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano wro= te: >> =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason writes: >> >>> This is just an interesting datapoint, but Git's test suite current= ly >>> crashes and burns if you don't have a perl in your $PATH, no matter= if >>> you've compiled with NO_PERL=3DYesPlease 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. =C2=A0NO_PERL=3DYesPlea= se is >> primarily about the deployment environment. =C2=A0The person who is = building >> and packaging git may have perl on her development box. > > I promise not to go overboard :) > > The aim of this and some recent patch serieses has been to improve ou= r > smoker support. I'd like people to be able to run a smoker without a > perl without sending false positives in their smoke reports, that's > all. I had an impression that your smoker report supports builds on tap harn= ess that in turn builds on perl.