tests: remove Email::MIME->create use entirely

[public-inbox.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bf1c821a9448602d18c21faf3f761ec67272db38..2dd7dcff7013303091575e3c7e818a1fd50a6c8a 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
 
 public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
 never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
-the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 9.x ("stretch")
+the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 10.x ("buster"),
+but older versions of Debian remain supported.
 
 Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions
 and FreeBSD.
@@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ Requirements
 public-inbox requires a number of other packages to access its full
 functionality.  The core tools are, of course:
 
-* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 repositories)
+* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 inboxes)
 * Perl 5.10.1+
-* DBD::SQLite (needed for NNTP, message threading, and v2 repositories)
+* DBD::SQLite (needed for NNTP, message threading, and v2 inboxes)
 
 To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want:
 
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ Beyond that, there is a long list of Perl modules required, starting with:
                                    rpm: perl-URI
                                    (for HTML/Atom generation)
 
-Plack and Date::Parse will be optional when v1.3.0 is released,
-but required for current and older releases:
+Plack and Date::Parse are optional as of public-inbox v1.3.0,
+but required for older releases:
 
 * Plack                            deb: libplack-perl
                                    pkg: p5-Plack
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
                                     not needed as systemd services or
                                     foreground servers)
 
-- Inline::C[7]                     deb: libinline-c-perl
+- Inline::C                        deb: libinline-c-perl
                                    pkg: pkg-Inline-C
                                    (speeds up process spawning on Linux,
                                     see public-inbox-daemon(8))
@@ -145,10 +146,10 @@ above, so there is no need to explicitly install them:
 - Filesys::Notify::KQueue          pkg: p5-Filesys-Notify-KQueue
                                    (for public-inbox-watch on FreeBSD)
 
-- IO::Compress::Gzip               deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
+- IO::Compress (::Gzip)            deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
                                    pkg: perl5
                                    rpm: perl-IO-Compress
-                                   (for gzipped mbox over HTTP)
+                                   (for gzipped mbox over HTTP, v2 format)
 
 Uncommonly needed modules:
 
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ install the system (into /usr/local) with:
 
         perl Makefile.PL
         make
-        make test
+        make test    # see HACKING for faster tests for hackers
         make install # root permissions may be needed
 
 When installing Search::Xapian, make sure the underlying Xapian