From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, berrange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 0/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:43:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389c712-2e02-80c0-b9e1-4c45b54d35df@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1543513531-1151-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On 11/29/18 11:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> gtester is deprecated by upstream glib and it does not support tests
> that call g_test_skip in some glib stable releases.
>
> glib suggests instead using Automake's TAP support. We do not support
> Automake, but we can copy the code that beautifies the TAP output and
> use it. I chose to use the Perl copy rather than the shell/awk one,
> in order to reuse Perl's TAP parsing package, but I'm open to suggestions
> about which language to use.
I'm less familiar with the TAP protocol than I'd like to admit, but I
did find:
https://blog.gtk.org/2018/07/11/news-from-glib-2-58/
which corroborates your claim that switching to Automake's TAP parser is
indeed a recommended approach to avoid the now-deprecated gtester.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-29 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-29 17:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 0/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-29 17:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] test: execute g_test_run when tests are skipped Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-29 20:48 ` Eric Blake
2018-11-30 7:10 ` Thomas Huth
2018-11-29 17:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-29 21:06 ` Eric Blake
2018-11-29 22:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-30 15:50 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-30 16:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-29 20:43 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2018-11-30 7:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 0/2] " Thomas Huth
2018-11-30 9:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-30 14:47 ` Cleber Rosa
2018-11-30 15:05 ` Thomas Huth
2018-11-30 9:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-11-30 9:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-30 10:21 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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