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Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 13, 2010, 22:45 UTC
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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.

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