If the consensus of the more-experienced folks is that we should, it shouldn't be hard to do; I use perlbrew to install my perls, and it'll accept -U flags to be passed along.
--Ruth Holloway On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, at 16:00, James E Keenan wrote: > As of perl-5.35.11, perl offers a configuration option, > '-Utaint_support', which enables a user to build a perl executable > without taint support. Neil Bowers contacted me with a pull request for > a CPAN distribution that I co-maintain, IPC-System-Simple > (https://github.com/pjf/ipc-system-simple/pull/39). The purpose of the > p.r. was to enable certain test files to PASS if the user attempted to > install this distro against a "no-taint perl." > > This p.r. exposed some problems with the distribution which I haven't > fully resolved but which are probably not perl-5.35.11's problem. > Nonetheless, the fact that Neil is having to work through the "CPAN > River" to create patches for multiple CPAN distros to accommodate > no-taint support suggests that we may need, starting now, to extensively > test distros against perls built with -Utaint_support. > > I myself don't do fully automated CPANtesting of the kind that Andreas, > Slaven, Bingos, Carlos and others so unflaggingly do. So I don't know > how much of a human and electronic work burden this might be. I'm > posting here to initiate a discussion. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan >
