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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2010, 23:30 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=FvAZZsxctJ-sXuQxsMgn15BhKooXjO13CVy6U@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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.

I had an impression that your smoker report supports builds on tap harness that in turn builds on perl.