Re: texinfo-4.13.94 pretest available

[Patrice Dumas]

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.

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

On other platforms, user familiar with those platforms should propose
something, but we cannot do that ourselves.

> 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.

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Pat