Re: [notmuch] Using test-lib.sh under GPLv3?

Subject: Re: [notmuch] Using test-lib.sh under GPLv3?

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:07:21 -0500

To: Michal Sojka

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano, Jakub Narebski

From: Avery Pennarun


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:27:37 -0800 (PST), Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> writes:
>>
>> > I like the simple and powerful test suite used by Git and I would like
>> > to use something like that in Notmuch project (http://notmuchmail.org/).
>> > [...]
>>
>> Have you thought about using TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format for
>> your testsuite?  Its page (http://testanything.org) has a TAP-producing
>> bash library: http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Tap-functions
>
> Yes, somebody has mentiond TAP on notmuch list. From a quick look at TAP
> shell library it seems to me a bit more complex then git's library and
> it also requires bash.
>
> If we need to use some TAP-based tools, we could easily change the
> output of git's library to conform to TAP. Right?

Another TAP-like option is wvtest:

   http://github.com/apenwarr/wvtest

It's LGPLv2.

Have fun,

Avery

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