What to do with run_test_suite's dependency checking
Originally created by @anonym on #8988 (Redmine)
Currently it’s out-of-date — one must follow the setup instructions to get a working environment that’s able to run the automated test suite.
Personally I think we should just remove it so it will be up to the user of the test suite to follow the setup instructions. The only benefit I can see in keeping it (+ enforcing that we keep it up-to-date) is that it would be handy to notify the user of new dependencies in a new branch, for instance. But still, its dependency checking is crude and cannot specify that “we need at least this version of $pkg” and similar.
Feature Branch: test/8988-up-to-date-dep-checks
Related issues
- Related to #9288 (closed)