Op een winterige herfstdag (Thursday 18 December 2003 22:44), schreef Randal
L. Schwartz:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Michael> If you're not planning on your tests modifying the test tree at
> all, Michael> you can probably just get away with having t/tree/... as a
> bunch of Michael> normal files and directorys in the tarball. Don't ship a
> seperate Michael> tar file, that introduces unnecessary dependencies.
>
> oh. duh. Yeah, that makes great sense. I can add local symlinks
> and hardlinks.
Oh yeah, that's just great! Exclude all them poor Win32 users!
Please stick to the advice Schwern gave and ship with a true directory tree
(or a script that creates one) for your testing!
> I'll compute ownership out-of-band and compare it
> to the test result though... I wouldn't want someone extracting
> this as joebloe to fail because the uid wasn't root. :)
what's 'root' ;-)
Good luck,
Abe
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