Re: subversion client test suite

Ben Collins-Sussman writes:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.ch.collab.net> writes:
>
> > So moving from our current Bourne script to either Perl or Python is
> > already a step up in portability.
>
> Agree. "The set of tools guaranteed to exist on any Unix OS" is not a
> sufficient yardstick for measuring portability of our test suite.
> Our client runs on every platform that APR does, which includes BeOS
> and Win32.
>
> > > I'd say we're fine to output a nice message saying "you need at
> > > least version X of language Y to run the test suite" instead. We
> > > could have a warning displayed in the configure script.
> >
> > +1 on that.
>
> +1.

+1

> The people who run `make check` will always be a smaller group than
> those who run `make && make install`. I think it's great that the
> latter group will never need any tools beyond cc and sh; that's the
> biggest and more important group. Adding an extra language
> requirement for the smaller group, however, is very small price to pay
> in return for protecting test-writers' sanity. :)

That's a important clarification that has come up a couple times now,
I think.

+1 to this too.

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