> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:38:41 +0100 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > I'd like to run the test suite to make sure the MinGW build for > > Windows is 100% functional. Is it possible to have instructions on > > where to download the missing modules (I understand they are > > Test::More, Data::Compare, and Test::Deep), and how to install them? > > I'm not a Perl user, so not proficient in the art of installing Perl > > modules. (I expect quite a few of Texinfo users to be in my camp.) > > It is platform specific, so, if this is to be explained somewhere this > is not someting I, (or, I believe Karl) can do.
How about explaining for Unix, then? Or for one flavor of GNU/Linux you are familiar with? I think I can take it from there. > There is already this in the tp README for a platform we know about: > > On Debian-based distros, Test::More is part of perl-modules and thus > installed with perl, the packages corresponding to the other modules > are named: > libdata-compare-perl libtest-deep-perl Yes, I've read that, but this kind of reference to Debian-specific packages is not useful unless one runs Debian. What I'm looking for is (a) where to download the packages, and (b) how to install them on a garden-variety machine manually, i.e. without using apt-get etc. That should be pretty standard procedure for installing Perl modules, isn't it? > > Or maybe these modules should be part of the distro, like > > Locale::Messages, Unicode::EastAsianWidth, and Text::Unidecode that > > already are. > > I think that we should only bundle modules that are needed for run time > not for build time/tests. Too bad.
