Patrik Stridvall ps@leissner.se writes:
I see no reason to get rid of it.
If people doesn't have Perl installed just don't run them.
This prevents people who don't have Perl from running the tests, for no good reason since the tests don't actually require Perl at all. I have no problem requiring Perl if there's a good reason for it, but at this point it's not the case.