Re: Should we start adding '-Utaint_support' to CPANtesters configurations

On 21/04/2022 22:00, James E Keenan wrote:
> 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."

Yes. I will do so, as I have a module which relies on taint.

 > 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.

I already test against a build of blead which I update from git roughly 
weekly. It would be trivial to update the script that rebuilds it to 
spit out two slightly different builds, so I'll do that this weekend.

-- 
David Cantrell