Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 10/29/14 8:42 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I'm sympathetic to that line of reasoning, but I really think that if
>> you want to keep this infrastructure, it needs to be made portable.
>
> Let me clarify that this was my intention. I have looked at many test
> frameworks, many of which are much nicer than what we have, but the
> portability and dependency implications for this project would have been
> between shocking and outrageous. I settled for what I felt was the
> absolute minimum: Perl + IPC::Run. It was only later on that I learned
> that 1) subtests don't work in Perl 5.10, and 2) subtests are broken in
> Perl 5.12. So we removed the use of subtests and now we are back at the
> baseline I started with.

Thanks. At last check, which I think was approximately last week, the
tests were running and passing on my machine.

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