Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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- Aug 13, 2010, 22:56 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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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.
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.