Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] t1006: ensure cat-file info isn't buffered by default

> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> 
> >> Yes, using Perl is a good substitute for writing it in C in this
> >> case.  I however question the choice to use t9700/test.pl here,
> >> which is clearly stated that its purpose is to "test perl interface
> >> which is Git.pm", and added tests are not testing anything in Git.pm
> >> at all.
> >> 
> >> Using t9700/test.pl only because it happens to use "perl -MTest::More"
> >> sounds a bit eh, suboptimal.
> >
> > *shrug*  I figure Test::More is common enough since it's part of
> > the Perl standard library; but I consider Perl a better scripting
> > language than sh by far and wish our whole test suite were Perl :>
> 
> Oh, I think we (actually the author of t9700) considers it common
> enough that we have PERL_TEST_MORE prerequisite to allow us to write
> tests, assuming that it is available, and let us easily skip where
> it is not available.  So I do not think I mind the dependency on
> Test::More at all.  Moving the tests to t1006 and rewriting the
> tests not to use Test::More are two separate and unrelated things,
> and if you are more comfortable with Test::More (and more
> importantly if it is natural to write Perl based tests using
> Test::More), it is not necessary to switch away from it.