Re: Make more portable TAP tests of initdb

Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that src/bin/initdb/t/001_initdb.pl uses directly rm via a
> system() call like that:
> system_or_bail "rm -rf '$tempdir'/*";
>
> This way of doing is not portable, particularly on platforms that do
> not have rm like... Windows where the equivalent is del. And we could
> actually use remove_tree with its option keep_root to get the same
> effect in pure perl as mentioned here:
> http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Path.html
> With this formulation:
> remove_tree($tempdir, {keep_root => 1});

Does Perl 5.8 have this?

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