From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:56:50 GMT Subject: Re: Git's tests have depended on Perl since at least 2006 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4oeyjfnw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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.