On 2018-11-29 21:43, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/29/18 11:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> gtester is deprecated by upstream glib and it does not support tests >> that call g_test_skip in some glib stable releases. >> >> glib suggests instead using Automake's TAP support. We do not support >> Automake, but we can copy the code that beautifies the TAP output and >> use it. I chose to use the Perl copy rather than the shell/awk one, >> in order to reuse Perl's TAP parsing package, but I'm open to suggestions >> about which language to use. > > I'm less familiar with the TAP protocol than I'd like to admit, but I > did find: > > https://blog.gtk.org/2018/07/11/news-from-glib-2-58/ > > which corroborates your claim that switching to Automake's TAP parser is > indeed a recommended approach to avoid the now-deprecated gtester.
Hmm, do we really have to maintain our own version of a test runner now? There's already some effort going on to use avocado in "make check-acceptance" ... maybe we could use avocado as replacement for gtester, too? Thomas
