Subj : Crashmail II
To   : Lars Kellogg-Stedman
From : Rj Clay
Date : Mon Feb 11 2013 07:51 am

Hi Lars!~

10 Feb 13 11:48, you wrote to me:

 RC>>    And since Debian is my primary dev platform, that means that
 RC>> using what you're currently useing for testing isn't particularly
 RC>> useful to me or to the packaging...

 LS> The "roundup" script is included in the package, and since it's just a
 LS> shell script I suspect you can use it without a problem.

   I will be looking at that, but my preference would be a least for something 
that is already available in Debian, if not also available on at least MS 
Windows.  (I'm much more familiar with the testing facilities available to 
Perl modules and script than I am for the same kind of things for C 
programs...)


 LS>   Calling it "not useful" seems...wrong?

   Please keep in mind that while I can understand why you went the linux only 
route with what you're doing, my intention with what I'm working on is to keep 
it cross platform; even if I can't support all of the platforms directly 
myself.  (For instance; I usually maintain at least one MS Windows VM, but 
don't have a similar setup for OS/2...)  So my preference would be for 
something usable (if not already available) on all of the platforms.

  OTOH; you're certainly correct that a test suite should be available and 
since 'roundup' is based on a shell script which can be included with the 
distribution (like you've already done), that means there is no concern about 
conflicting package names. (Not sure if that would be considered an embedded 
library, which is frowned upon in Debian, since it's only for testing...) And 
perhaps I could set a dependency for running the test suite for there being a 
bourne shell available (it has been ported all over, after all, even though it 
may not be available by default).


 LS>   Having a test suite has already flushed out several bugs.

   Yes, I saw that (and I like to use similar kind of thing for Perl modules 
and scripts); which is why I also am interested in having the same kind of 
thing.


 LS> If you're aware of another Bourne shell test harness that's as easy
 LS> to use

   Not that I've been able to find, so far. Did find something called 
"cmdtest" ("blackbox testing of Unix command line programs") in Debian but 
that requires python.





Jame




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