Re: two questions
hi Chris,
The VSC-lite test suite comes with its own version of tcl and expect
bundled as part of the tests.
Its fairly typical for a test suite to require a certain
amount of test scaffold or user defined support routines.
It can mean that you require more of the implementation
under test than the runtime system deploys.
regards
Andrew
On Jun 13, 12:07am in "Re: two questions", Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> This would mean that to test a system they would need to be configured
> with expect (and I think with tcl as well). However, neither of them
> are required for a distribution to be LSB compliant.
>
> How far beyond the LSB requirements it is reasonable to expect a
> system to support in order to test it? The UsersGroups test suite (for
> the commands component) has similar issues and for the moment we've
> avoided problems by using a very small C program that does sort of
> what expect does but is much simpler (and also much more limited in
> what it can do). Using expect would be easier but would mean that more
> non-fundamental programs would have to be installed on the
> distributions in order to test them.
>
> What do you think?
>
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