From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perl/Git.pm: Writing a test suite
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:28:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w3jk041.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 484004AB.40008@gmail.com
Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> writes:
> 1. Is it OK for the Git.pm tests to be called from the Git test
> scripts but generate different-looking output (since the tests are run
> in Perl)?
Cosmetics. As long as they are not disproportionally chatty nor too
terse, and correctly catch breakages and stop (if told to with -i) on the
first one, I think it is Ok to be different (e.g. no support for colored
output).
> 2. I might need external test helpers from CPAN at some point. Is
> that a bad idea because of dependencies, or are we OK with having
> additional dependencies for running the test suite if necessary?
As long as you use the ones that is widely used in Perl world I do not
think it would be a problem.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 7:43 perl/Git.pm: Writing a test suite Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 8:03 ` Rafael Garcia-Suarez
2008-05-30 10:03 ` Petr Baudis
2008-05-30 13:44 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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