From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.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 22:56:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=FvAZZsxctJ-sXuQxsMgn15BhKooXjO13CVy6U@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4oeyjfnw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.
I promise not to go overboard :)
The aim of this and some recent patch serieses has been to improve our
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-13 22:56 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
2010-08-13 22:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-08-13 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-13 23:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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