Re: Make more portable TAP tests of initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: Make more portable TAP tests of initdb
Date
Msg-id 20150415053842.GA2948387@tornado.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: Make more portable TAP tests of initdb  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Make more portable TAP tests of initdb
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:29:36PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David E. Wheeler wrote:
> > On Apr 14, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Castoroides has 5.8.4.  Oops.
> > 
> > WUT.
> 
> Yeah, eh?  Anyway I don't think it matters much: just don't enable TAP
> tests on machines with obsolete Perl.  I think this is fine since 5.8's
> latest release is supported.

Solaris 10 ships Perl 5.8.4, and RHEL 5.11 ships Perl 5.8.8.  Therefore, Perl
installations lacking this File::Path feature will receive vendor support for
years to come.  Replacing the use of keep_root with rmtree+mkdir will add 2-10
lines of code, right?  Let's do that and not raise the system requirements.

Thanks,
nm



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