From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:30:25 GMT Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006 Message-ID: <7vvd7ehyzy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 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.