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

[Eric Kow]

In a separate thread
(see <5a376f550905140009l6519eds9c68d46f90e995b8 at mail.gmail.com>),
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:09:30 +0200, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
> Mmmm actually it's a bit harder than that. Some tests require perl
> (e.g. pull_binary.sh).

| % grep perl tests/*
| tests/optimize_relink.sh:  echo 'use File::Basename; $res=0; while ($fn=<'$1'/*>) { $fn2="'$2'/" . basename($fn); @fd1=lstat($fn); @fd2=lstat($fn2); $res += ($fd1[1] != $fd2[1]);}; exit($res);' | perl
| tests/pull_binary.sh:perl -e 'print "a"x1048576' > foo
| tests/pull_compl.sh:    perl -i~ -pe "$1" foo

It'd be nice if we could make just one last push to get rid of these.
Ideas?

| tests/set_scripts_executable.sh:#!/usr/bin/env perl
| tests/run-all-tests:echo "Let's check that make dist works properly..."

Non-issues here

| tests/README.test_maintainers.txt:  perl shell_harness annotate.sh
 
Sounds like a documentation tweak to do

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