From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:45:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006
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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.