Re: [PATCH] test-lib: TAP compliance for skipping tests on request

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:15, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Make the output TAP compliant for tests skipped on request (GI_SKIP_TESTS).

That "GI_SKIP_TESTS" has a T-deficit.

> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
> ---
> We may want to better spell out the reasons, but I think
> it's good enough like this for *explicitly* skipped tests.
>
>  t/test-lib.sh |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index 8e3de53..2076271 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ test_skip () {
>        case "$to_skip" in
>        t)
>                say_color skip >&3 "skipping test: $@"
> -               say_color skip "ok $test_count: # skip $1"
> +               say_color skip "ok $test_count # SKIP $1"

Good catch with the s/://, but I think the lower-case "skip" should
stay that way. At least that's what Test::More does:

    $ perl -MTest::More=tests,2 -E 'SKIP: { skip "no can do", 1 } pass "can do"'
    1..2
    ok 1 # skip no can do
    ok 2 - can do

It only uses upper-case on skip-all. I.e. when part of the plan line:

    $ perl -MTest::More=skip_all,"this platform sucks" -e1
    1..0 # SKIP this platform sucks

Maybe I've missed something, or Test::More has a bug.

>                : true
>                ;;
>        *)
> @@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ done
>  case "$to_skip" in
>  t)
>        say_color skip >&3 "skipping test $this_test altogether"
> -       say_color skip "skip all tests in $this_test"
> +       skip_all="skip all tests in $this_test"
>        test_done
>  esac

Good catch. I missed that (again) in my "tests: Use skip_all=<reason>
to skip tests" patch.