On Oct 7, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I'd much rather live without Test::More and use DBD::Pg, then have
> Test::More but need to open pipes to psql to talk to the database,
> rather than using DBI to do it. But I guess we would need to worry
> about whether we can make DBD::Pg work with the installation being
> tested, rather than finding some other install.
The test architecture depends on Perl, but not on the DBI. I don't
think that Andrew wants to add any dependencies. Therefore we'd need
to use file handles. That's not to say that we couldn't write a nice
little interface for it such that the implementation could later change.
> Do we need to restrict ourselves to core? Developers already need
> flex and bison, which aren't needed when installing from the tarball.
> Couldn't we also have "make dev-check" that has higher requirements
> than "make check" does, but does a more thorough job?
flex and bison are not Perl modules.
Best,
David