extending the test suite using dbus-python

Havoc Pennington hp at pobox.com
Sun Oct 19 06:14:08 PDT 2008


Hi,

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> I'd like to add some more regression tests, and writing them in C is
> about as fun as medieval torture.  Would anyone object to adding new
> tests to dbus' test suite using dbus-python?  This would not introduce
> a hard build-time dependency on python-dbus, only to execute 'make
> test'.
>
> Bear in mind that if you object - you may be signing yourself up to
> write some regression tests...

I wonder if these tests should just be in the dbus-python package;
otherwise there's a bit of a circular dependency ...

We already lost some test coverage in the base dbus package by moving
some of the tests that required glib to dbus-glib

Havoc


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