[lsb-discuss] Looking for comments on Perl, Python (and why not TCL, Ruby, PHP, etc.)

[Stew Benedict]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> On 6 Jun 2007, at 16:14, Sam Hart wrote:
> > The former is not going to happen due to the nature of these languages
> > (and really, as was pointed out elsewhere, you might not *want* this
> > to happen). The latter, while semi-useless from an engineering
> > perspective, may be more of more use marketing-wise.
> 
> Indeed. Further to that I produced TAP::Convert::TET which is a step  
> on the way to converting Perl's test results into something the LSB  
> TET infrastructure can use.
> 
> Next I need to look at converting Perl's tests so they can be run  
> other than at build time - which is an altogether less trivial  
> proposition.
> 

I've done one approach to this:

http://bzr.freestandards.org/unofficial/perl-test

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~stewb/lsb-perl/

It ended up to be not that difficult to have harness do TET reporting, but 
the converter could still be useful moving forward. I assume other 
projects use TAP.

-- 
Stew Benedict
The Linux Foundation