[poppler] Moving the poppler test framework to git

Jeff Muizelaar jeff at infidigm.net
Fri Nov 10 22:08:50 PST 2006


On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:18:41AM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:39, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
> > I'd like to move the test framework that lives in the test module of
> > poppler cvs to git. Given that I seem to be the only one that develops
> > it, I don't really expect any objections. However, I thought it'd be
> > good to ask first anyways.
> I would prefer that you leave it in CVS. The qt4 unit tests rely on test files 
> that are present in that module.

I would have no problem leaving the qt4 unit tests in cvs. There is
really no reason that the test suite code needs to be in the same
respository.

> If we are talking about making a move, then I'd be happy to see all of poppler 
> moved to SVN (or potentially some other tool, but most of the decentralised 
> tools presume some kind of central maintainer to pull a releasable tree 
> together, and we don't really have anyone who is over all of poppler).

git doesn't have any presumption like this. X and cairo both use git
with a central shared respository (CVS style).

-Jeff


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