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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, 23:44 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 23:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I had an impression that your smoker report supports builds on tap harness
> that in turn builds on perl.
It does, but I was considering cases like:
    PATH=/a/limited/test/environment /usr/bin/prove ...

But actually getting rid of the smoker Perl dependency would be easy, it's just running each test, saving the output to a file and tar-ing it all up. It'd be very easy to provide a shellscript that did that.

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