[Buildroot] [PATCH/next v3 5/8] support/testing: add perl-libwww-perl test

[François Perrad]

Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 12:44, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 11:56:30 +0100, François Perrad wrote:
>
> > > Sorry if I haven't followed the previous discussion, but why do we have
> > > this docstring ? Is it just for information ?
> > >
> > Yes, this is for information.
>
> OK.
>
> > By this way, we know that we don't need to write another test for
> HTTP-Date
> > or IO-HTML.
>
> This is not really true. Indeed, if you test HTTP-Date with plenty of
> other packages installed, how are you sure that HTTP-Date has all the
> necessary runtime dependencies it needs ?
>
> Only a test with only HTTP-Date installed and its dependencies will
> allow to verify this.
>
>
I want also to limit the number of test, see cover letter.

> > > +    def test_run(self):
> > > > +        self.login()
> > > > +        self.module_test("LWP")
> > > > +        self.module_test("LWP::UserAgent")
> > > > +        self.module_test("LWP::Authen::Basic")
> > > > +        self.module_test("LWP::Authen::Digest")
> > > > +        self.module_test("HTTP::Message")
> > > > +        self.module_test("HTTP::Daemon")
> > > > +        self.module_test("WWW::RobotRules")
> > >
> > > Why are you testing specifically those modules ? What is the rule to
> > > decide what modules are tested here ?
> > >
> > >
> > libwww-perl is a special package/distribution from the beginning of the
> WWW
> > history
> > (started in 1995, see
> https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/libwww-perl
> > ).
> > In fact, libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules.
> > LWP (Lib World-Wide Web Perl) is just a name space for some of them, and
> > doesn't match with the distribution name libwww.
> > So, we need load most of them.
>
> OK, so all those modules are the ones part of libwww-perl, i.e we are
> not testing modules installed by other packages, correct ?
>
>
Correct.

François


> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
>
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