Hi Kaz, hi Thomas, > Le 7 sept. 2020 à 08:57, Kaz Kylheku <k...@kylheku.com> a écrit : > > On 2020-09-06 09:13, Akim Demaille wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >>> Le 6 sept. 2020 à 16:41, Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> in Gentoo Linux we are carrying the following patch for quite some time >>> to make perl dependency which is required for examples optional. >>> Any chance to get this applied upstream? >> I don't see how Perl is needed. I do not mean Perl to be required, >> so you'll have to be more specific on why you think it is. >> Besides, if I spent so much time providing users with examples, it >> is clearly not to see them removed by the distro. These examples are >> part of the package, and must be treated like documentation. > > I'd like to add that the examples are compiled and executed as test > cases during "make check". The --disable-tests option provided by this > patch completely unhooks these programs from being built and tested > by "make check". Thus if/when Gentoo runs "make check", those things > are not being tested. The main test suite still runs, but Bison is being > tested just a little less by the omission of the examples. (They > take very little extra time.)
I disagree with Kaz here. First of all, the examples are not tests, they are examples. And these examples have tests because I want to make sure that the examples I provide the users with, work. These tests are not there to check Bison, but to check the examples. I do not know how gemtoo treats the tests. Thomas, do you run the tests as part of packaging Bison? > Surely, Akim's "must be treated like documentation" can be interpreted > as exactly that: the examples go into some bison-doc package? Full agreed. But Thomas's question is unrelated: he doesn't want to get rid of the examples, he wants to get rid of Perl. And he claims that one cannot support the examples without Perl. And I believe he is mistaken. I just tried again, successfully. So let's go back to the real question: Thomas, what makes you think Perl is needed? What problem were you addressing? Cheers!
