Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

I've now submitted my application to the GSoC site: Regards, Stefano

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

Hello Robert and Jelmer, and thanks for your replies. On Tuesday 22 March 2011, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini > > > to its suboptimal documentation. So I'm going to ask: Robert, as > > > the

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +1300, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini > > to its suboptimal documentation. So I'm going to ask: Robert, as > > the main proposer/supporter of the SubUnit protocol here, would you > > be willing and ready to help me out during

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Stefano Lattarini > to its suboptimal documentation.  So I'm going to ask: Robert, as > the main proposer/supporter of the SubUnit protocol here, would you > be willing and ready to help me out during my prospective work with > GSoC, if I update my application's goa

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

Summarizing a long discussion: > > ABSTRACT: > > The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-based protocol > that allows communication between test scripts and a test harness. > > [HUGE CUT] > Hello all, and especially hello Robert (yes, I'm shamelessly asking for your partecipation he

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:41:07PM CET: > On Sunday 20 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Or add a subunit parser and a quick tap2subunit perl module today > ["perl module"? what about portability?] awk should be sufficient, for text-mode output at least. > > and hav

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Or add a subunit parser and a quick tap2subunit perl module today and have the best of both worlds? (This is meant as an honest question, even if it looks like a rhetoric one.) I think that's a good approach. I don't really use either framework, but

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sunday 20 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:40:39AM CET: > > On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > Are TAP and subunit compatible on their common subset? If not

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: > > Hello Robert, and thanks for the feedback. > > > > On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini > >> wrote: > >> > ABSTRACT:

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:40:39AM CET: > On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Are TAP and subunit compatible on their common subset? If not, why not? > > > > You can convert TAP to subunit, and

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

* Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:03:10AM CET: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:10:16AM CET: > >> TAP is an extremely simple protocol, and the extensions to it to > >> support things like not needing to m

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues > wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > thanks for the feedback. I have a couple of questions: > > > > * Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:10:16AM CET: > >> TAP is an extremely simple protocol

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello Robert, and thanks for the feedback. > > On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini >> wrote: >> > ABSTRACT: >> > >> >  The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-ba

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Robert, > > thanks for the feedback.  I have a couple of questions: > > * Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:10:16AM CET: >> TAP is an extremely simple protocol, and the extensions to it to >> support things like not needing

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

Hello Robert, and thanks for the feedback. On Sunday 20 March 2011, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: > > ABSTRACT: > > > > The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-based protocol > > that allows communication between test scripts and a

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

Hi Robert, thanks for the feedback. I have a couple of questions: * Robert Collins wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:10:16AM CET: > TAP is an extremely simple protocol, and the extensions to it to > support things like not needing to maintain the count of tests, > additional debug data and so on

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > ABSTRACT: > >  The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-based protocol >  that allows communication between test scripts and a test harness. ... > Now, in all honesty, I must say that I've chosen TAP not only for its > objective

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

On Saturday 19 March 2011, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I'm curious/interested about the TAP effort, as it might tie in nicely > with some stuff we're working on for NTP: > > https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/GSoCProjectIdeas#Unit_tests > Nice! Having a real use case from the very beginning would be

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

I'm curious/interested about the TAP effort, as it might tie in nicely with some stuff we're working on for NTP: https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/GSoCProjectIdeas#Unit_tests

[GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

ABSTRACT: The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-based protocol that allows communication between test scripts and a test harness. The primary target of this project is the implementation of a TAP-consumer testsuite harness in Automake-generated Makefiles. This way, a software