Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 0/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 2018-11-29 21:43, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, do we really have to maintain our own version of a test runner now?
There's already some effort going on to use avocado in "make
check-acceptance" ... maybe we could use avocado as replacement for
gtester, too?

 Thomas