From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X |
Date: | 2014-11-04 13:18:57 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmobZvbT7ZcD8xNuCRybrd1wgTq64PE9wG+YKBXJrbj09dg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 10/29/14 8:42 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I'm sympathetic to that line of reasoning, but I really think that if
>> you want to keep this infrastructure, it needs to be made portable.
>
> Let me clarify that this was my intention. I have looked at many test
> frameworks, many of which are much nicer than what we have, but the
> portability and dependency implications for this project would have been
> between shocking and outrageous. I settled for what I felt was the
> absolute minimum: Perl + IPC::Run. It was only later on that I learned
> that 1) subtests don't work in Perl 5.10, and 2) subtests are broken in
> Perl 5.12. So we removed the use of subtests and now we are back at the
> baseline I started with.
Thanks. At last check, which I think was approximately last week, the
tests were running and passing on my machine.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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