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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 ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next