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As much as I'd be thrilled to remove Perl code from the library, it's used to build from non-release branches. |
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Yeah, Perl makes daily performance testing of the latest code commit using Spack on Mac impossible. |
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Perl ships with MacOS - why do you need to install it from Spack? |
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Instead of running the Perl scripts at configure time, we could set up a CI action that runs them and errors if there were changes. Then you'd only need Perl if you modified a public API call, updated the error categories, etc. |
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We now check in the Perl-generated files, so Perl is no longer necessary to build the library (as long as you don't change the input files). |
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Spack installation of Perl on Mac is problematic:
https://github.com/hyoklee/hdf5/runs/6042719583?check_suite_focus=true
less dependency = more portability
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