Should we start adding '-Utaint_support' to CPANtesters configurations

[email protected] (James E Keenan)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.testers.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
As of perl-5.35.11, perl offers a configuration option, 
'-Utaint_support', which enables a user to build a perl executable 
without taint support.  Neil Bowers contacted me with a pull request for 
a CPAN distribution that I co-maintain, IPC-System-Simple 
(https://github.com/pjf/ipc-system-simple/pull/39).  The purpose of the 
p.r. was to enable certain test files to PASS if the user attempted to 
install this distro against a "no-taint perl."

This p.r. exposed some problems with the distribution which I haven't 
fully resolved but which are probably not perl-5.35.11's problem. 
Nonetheless, the fact that Neil is having to work through the "CPAN 
River" to create patches for multiple CPAN distros to accommodate 
no-taint support suggests that we may need, starting now, to extensively 
test distros against perls built with -Utaint_support.

I myself don't do fully automated CPANtesting of the kind that Andreas, 
Slaven, Bingos, Carlos and others so unflaggingly do.  So I don't know 
how much of a human and electronic work burden this might be.  I'm 
posting here to initiate a discussion.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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