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. The irony in this whole story is that if we had thrown this onto the build farm right away, we might have found and fixed these problems within a week instead of five months later. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
