On 5 December 2013 00:15, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrm...@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
