Re: texinfo-4.13.94 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:38:41 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.