[darcs-users] can we get rid of perl requirement in our test suite?

[Salvatore Insalaco]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
> It'd be nice if we could make just one last push to get rid of these.
> Ideas?

I tried to substitute the 1mb file generation with something like that:

while true; do echo -n "a"; done | head -c 1048000

but it is really really slow :).

What about:

ghc -e "putStr $ replicate 1048576 'a'"

Is it ok to require ghc to run tests?

Salvatore