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Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote=
:
> =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is just an interesting datapoint, but Git's test suite currentl=
y
>> 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 c=
ase
>> 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=3DYesPleas=
e is
> primarily about the deployment environment. =C2=A0The person who is b=
uilding
> 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.