X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=1070d3ff341fc6bc7f78e8a43078718f5e9a1094;hp=cceb686f2e83e41e07b14beae70fd96fc60d745d;hb=23af251dd607c4e75ab1e68063f2c885c48cc035;hpb=fcbf7f7cc38bd68b771608a64f9de724f1ff78c1

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index cceb686f..1070d3ff 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ hacking public-inbox
 Send all patches and "git request-pull"-formatted emails to our
 self-hosting inbox at meta@public-inbox.org
 It is archived at: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
-and http://hjrcffqmbrq6wope.onion/meta/ (using Tor)
+and http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/ (using Tor)
 
 Contributions are email-driven, just like contributing to git
 itself or the Linux kernel; however anonymous and pseudonymous
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ the shiny new.
 Avoid relying on compiled modules too much.  Even if it is Free,
 compiled code makes packages more expensive to audit, build,
 distribute and verify.  public-inbox itself will only be implemented
-in scripting languages (currently Perl 5) and optional JIT-compiled C
-(via Inline::C)
+in scripting languages (currently Perl 5) and optional
+Just-Ahead-of-Time-compiled C (via Inline::C)
 
 Do not recurse on user-supplied data.  Neither Perl or C handle
 deep recursion gracefully.  See lib/PublicInbox/SearchThread.pm
@@ -59,6 +59,51 @@ directory for design decisions made during development.
 See Documentation/technical/ in the source tree for more details
 on specific topics, in particular data_structures.txt
 
+Optional packages for testing and development
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Optional packages testing and development:
+
+- Plack::Test                      deb: libplack-test-perl
+                                   pkg: p5-Plack
+                                   rpm: perl-Plack-Test
+
+- Plack::Test::ExternalServer      deb: libplack-test-externalserver-perl
+                                   pkg: p5-Plack-Test-ExternalServer
+
+- Test::Simple                     deb: perl-modules-5.$MINOR
+                                   pkg: perl5
+                                   rpm: perl-Test-Simple
+
+- XML::TreePP                      deb: libxml-treepp-perl
+                                   pkg: p5-XML-TreePP
+                                   rpm: perl-XML-TreePP
+
+Email::MIME is optional as of public-inbox v1.5.0 but still
+used for maintainer comparison tests:
+
+* Email::MIME                      deb: libemail-mime-perl
+                                   pkg: p5-Email-MIME
+                                   rpm: perl-Email-MIME
+
+Faster tests
+------------
+
+The `make test' target provided by MakeMaker does not run in
+parallel.  Our `make check' target supports parallel runs, and
+it also creates a `.prove' file to optimize `make check-run'.
+
+The prove(1) command (distributed with Perl) may also be used
+for finer-grained testing: prove -bvw t/foo.t
+
+If using a make(1) (e.g. GNU make) with `include' support, the
+`config.mak' Makefile snippet can be used to set environment
+variables such as PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY and TMPDIR.
+
+With PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY set to enable Inline::C support and
+TMPDIR pointed to a tmpfs(5) mount, `make check-run' takes 6-10s
+(load-dependent) on a busy workstation built in 2010.
+
 Perl notes
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