Re: Still another race condition in recovery TAP tests

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:57:24PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 6 October 2017 at 14:03, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:32:03PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> (I do kinda wonder why we rolled our own RecursiveCopy; surely there's
> >> a better implementation in CPAN?)
> >
> > Fewer people will test as we grow the list of modules they must first install.
> 
> Meh, I don't buy that. At worst, all we have to do is provide a script
> that fetches them, from distro repos if possible, and failing that
> from CPAN.
> 
> With cpanminus, that's pretty darn simple too.

If the tree had such a script and it were reliable, then yes, it would matter
little whether the script procured one module or five.