Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini
> > to its suboptimal documentation.  So I'm going to ask: Robert, as
> > the main proposer/supporter of the SubUnit protocol here, would you
> > be willing and ready to help me out during my prospective work with
> > GSoC, if I update my application's goal to read "Support SubUnit
> > (and also TAP as derivation) in Automake-generated testsuites"?
> > Maybe we could also improve SubUnit's documentation along the way,
> > which would help both me and Automake, and also improve SubUnit
> > itself and make it more "palatable" for potential adopters.
> I'll be delighted to help by clarifying things or making sensible
> small improvements. We should structure things so there is a clear API
> between whatever automake needs and subunit providing it (this allows
> subunit to continue to improve without automake needing to change
> futher, and vice versa). I would offer to make large changes if
> needed, but realistically, work is in the middle of a crucial project
> that is going to be going on for ~ 3-4 more months, so I am somewhat
> time constrained :). That said, Jelmer Vernooij may well - he has
> written a number of Perl subunit tools in the samba project, and they
> are likely to be at least somewhat relevant to whatever automake needs
> are here.
I'd be happy to help with inquiries about subunit where I can or
co-mentor, whatever works best. 

FWIW the Perl subunit modules shipped with subunit and included in Samba
are sufficient for parsing existing subunit streams and for generating
subunit streams, but they're still pretty basic. They don't yet
integrate with any of the standard perl testing frameworks like
Test::Simple or Test::More and they (currently) lack support for some of
the newer subunit features.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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