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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:01:41AM +0100, Alexander Hartmaier wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > I'll repeat though, that the core distribution doesn't need to install and > > modules only used for testing. (Or for building, for that matter). > > > > Nicholas Clark > > > That's a author_requires/build_requires in my opinion. Is it a problem that > Perl requires non-core modules for it's test suite? Do author-only tests > exist at the moment? Cause the whole pod checking is nothing a user should > have to run on install imho. The distribution in git *is* the distribution for the authors. The continuous integration environment (the smoke testers, and Jenkins) need to verify that changes are valid. We're also not talking about a *module* here - the distribution needs to bootstrap without using an installed Perl, because we can't assume that one is there. (Our pre-requisites *can* cross-build. We can't. So we can't get to a new platform or architecture by bootstrapping on one on which Perl does work. New architectures are real - I think Linux has recently added two.) So everything used during the development cycle needs to be in the core git checkout. So, whilst yes, technically it doesn't have to be in a tarball distribution, it has to be pretty much everywhere else, meaning that the distinction is moot. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next