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

2011-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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 project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Pippijn, * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:47:35AM CET: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:38:39AM +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > > If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to

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

2011-03-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
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

2011-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
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

2011-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
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

2011-03-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
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

2011-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* 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

2011-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* 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

2011-03-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
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

2011-03-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
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

2011-03-20 Thread Daniel Herring
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

2011-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* 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 project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-20 Thread John Calcote
On 03/19/2011 01:45 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > Pippijn wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: >>> If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to use >>> automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to >>> co-mentor and wor

Re: Do convenience libraries propagate -R linker flags?

2011-03-20 Thread Rhys Ulerich
Hi Ralf, >> I've got a convenience library where the LDFLAGS includes -R: >> noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libsomething.la >> ... >> libsomething_la_LDFLAGS = -Rsomewhere >> and I indeed see "-Rsomewhere" appear within libsomething.la's >> dependency_libs >> line the way I expect. >> >> In ano