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Re: [perl #118543] removing various testing and obsolete profilingtargets

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
June 19, 2013 13:48
Subject:
Re: [perl #118543] removing various testing and obsolete profilingtargets
Message ID:
20130619134822.GY3729@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:42:36PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:33:54 +0100, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 06:12:46AM -0700, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > 
> > > There are a *lot* of variant testing targets in the *nix Makefile, most of
> > > which I don't think that anyone uses. All are shortcuts which invoke t/TEST
> > > or t/harness with various options. I propose we remove most of them.
> > 
> > > There are also targets and scripts related to profiling and testing tools
> > > for Tru64 and Irix. I propose we remove those.
> > 
> > I'm wondering also about killing the purify/quantify/purecov targets
> 
> +1
> 
> > (and associated documentation). I'm not even sure if IBM still sell
> > quantify or purecov. They still seem to sell purify, but I'm not sure if
> > anyone is using it these days. eg
> > 
> >     Valgrind's technical support is better. (Yes, I've dealt with both.)
> >     Valgrind doesn't cost $2,364 [rational.com] per seat.
> 
> When I used (the trial version of) Purify-7 on AIX, there were no
> alternatives available. Valgrind could not be compiled on AIX.
> 
> I have no idea what the current options are when being forced to work
> on AIX.

This doesn't stop anyone *using* purify on AIX (or anywhere else). It just
means that they have to type the command(s) manually to make perl with it.

My hunch is no-one is using it on AIX with perl. ie that the userbase for 13
lines of Makefile.SH is approximately zero, and has been approximately zero
for at least 5 years.

Nicholas Clark

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