test/ ?

Gary L. Greene Jr. greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Sat Jul 1 11:57:07 PDT 2006


On Saturday 01 July 2006 03:49, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:01 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> are there any plans on the sources in test/?
> >>>
> >>> I've implemented a patch to build them under automake control, but ...
> >>> except of 3 programs, most of the stuff inside test/ directly depends
> >>> on apt-deb code and currently is non-buildable with apt-rpm.
> >>
> >> Me thinks the test/ sources might be interesting to opensource
> >> historians if there weren't any more interesting historical code to look
> >> at :)
> >
> > ;) ...
> >
> >> I don't think I've ever really looked at them (before now), never mind
> >> built them, guess it could be just as well removed. It could be nice to
> >> have some *useful* testing code around but the current stuff hardly
> >> qualifies.
> >
> > ... exactly. test/ to me looks like the Debian apt developer's graveyard
> > of "dead code" ...
> >
> > Anyway, ... below is patch I mentioned above.
> >
> > 3 programs are being built by default, all others are implemented as
> > EXTRA_PROGRAMS, i.e. they are not being built by default, only if
> > explicitly requested "make <program>"
> >
> > None of them currently build. IMO, they ether should be adapted to
> > apt-rpm, be re-written to use a common "deb/rpm" API, or be removed.
> >
> > After applying the patch:
> > svn add test/Makefile.am test/Makefile.in
> > svn rm test/makefile
>
> Applied + removed some things that dont make any sense at all for
> apt-rpm and fixed some minor stuff so the remaining stuff at least builds
> and sorta runs.
>
> Just wondering if it makes any sense to build any of them by default :)
>
>  	- Panu -
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I've been monitoring the development of libept, the eventual replacement for 
libapt, and am pleased to say that Peter Rockai has so far gotten Adept to 
link to it and open the rpmdb read-on atm. This is good progress as this will 
allow apt-rpm and apt-deb (using this name atm to differentiate the two apt 
flavours) to have a unified back end.
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