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 -- "Jarkko Hietaniemi" is actually the code name for a whole team of Finnish super-programmers, capable of working continuously 25 hours a day without tripping each other up, and running solely only on intravenous caffeine. -- Nicholas Clark on p5p @ 2002-03-04