Re: Document how to set up TAP tests for Perl 5.8.8

Hello,

At Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:58:34 +0800, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote in <CAMsr+YHdiEMRB+2yBz=xaxBX5qTeB73nN1QS5dy4BUdT_W3csg(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> On 18 November 2016 at 08:15, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 18 November 2016 at 07:10, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> I wasted a bunch of time getting set up to test for such an ancient
> >>> Perl and would love to save the next person along the hassle by
> >>> documenting the easy way.
> >>
> >> It looks sensible to mention that in the README, so +1.

I appreciate the labor. Anyway I don't object for adding that to
the README. +1.

> >> By the way, would it matter to mention ways to install perlbrew? For
> >> example, I just bumped into http://install.perlbrew.pl by looking
> >> around, though I don't doubt that most people would just use cpan with
> >> "install App::perlbrew" for example. For OSX users with brew and
> >> without macports that would matter.
> >
> > The docs linked mention it, so I figured that'd probably do. Though I
> > notice it's only mentioned in the "configuration" section not under
> > "installation", so maybe it's worth adding yeah.
>
> Updated docs patch. Since configure checks for 5.8.0 that's what's
> specified. Anyone who wants to argue about the actual version we
> _should_ target can do so elsewhere, all I'm interested in is what we
> _do_ officially target so I can document this.

I understand you :p By the way, the new doc points to
http://install.perlbrew.pl and it just shows the install
script. It seems more puzzling..

I suppose https://perlbrew.pl/ seems to me the primary site for
perbrew.

| Perlbrew
|
| perlbrew is an admin-free perl installation management tool. The latest version is 0.78, read the release note: Release 0.78.
|
| Install, quickly
|
| Copy & Paste this line into your terminal:
|
| \curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

regards,

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center