On 10/28/14 10:01 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 10/28/14 9:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ISTM that the project policy for external components like this has been
>> "don't rely on them unless user says to use them, in which case fail if
>> they aren't present". So perhaps what we ought to have is a configure
>> switch along the lines of "--enable-tap-tests". If you don't specify it,
>> prove_check expands to nothing. If you do specify it, we fail if we
>> lack any of the expected support, both "prove" and whatever the agreed-on
>> set of Perl modules is.
>
> That's also a good idea.
Here is a patch.
