On 5 December 2013 00:15, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've spent the last two days getting our test suite to pass
> with our backward compat option. That mostly worked for
> 1.5 through 1.9 (with one exception).
>
> The problem is however, that we not only create repositories
> in the respective older format version but also expect the
> server to behave as the respective older release does. This
> causes two types of problems:
>
> * Tests depending on server capabilities see unexpected
> behavior, e.g. srv-min-ver=6 against a 1.9 svnserve:
>
> FAIL: prop_tests.py 34: test revprop atomicity guarantees of libsvn_ra
> (because the server has *_ATOMIC_REVPROP capability)
>
> Pre-1.5 tests show even more discrepancies like different
> wording in error messages etc. So, this class of tests cannot
> run against a new server then advertised.
>
> * Many more tests fail when the test are actually run against
> a svnserve of the specified minor version because the
> respective feature, e.g. svnrdump / svnsync, are not
> available at all.
>
> Thus, we can't use that combination, to verify that old data
> (still) gets processed correctly.
>
> Apart for skipping many tests, there is no way to make the
> current test suite pass for pre-1.7 server and data.
>
> Suggestion: Redefine / introduce new options:
>
> --server-minor-version (actual server version)
> --repository-minor-version (highest format supported by SVN 1.minor)
> --created-minor-version (create repositories with this older format
> and then upgrade to --repository-minor-version).
>
> Given that most feature presence checks test for mergeinfo,
> it should not be too hard to move existing tests over to the
> new scheme.
>
I'm not familiar with how test suite implemented, but your suggestions
sounds good for me as test suite 'user'. For me
--server-minor-version is for RA compatibility, so we need something
different for FS version to test.
[Bikeshed mode] May be it's better to use '--repository-version' and
'--upgrade-repository-from' to use full version number?
--
Ivan Zhakov
CTO | VisualSVN | http://www.visualsvn.com
Received on 2013-12-09 23:04:24 CET